Camille Chautemps
Camille Chautemps (
February 1,
1885 at
Paris -
July 1,
1963 at
Washington,
US) French
Radical Politician of the
Third Republic, three times Prime Minister.
Chautemps entered politics and became Mayor of Tours in 1912, and a Radical deputy in 1919. Between 1924 and 1926 he served in the center-left coalition governments of ÃÂdouard Herriot, Paul Painlevé and Aristide Briand, and became President of the Council briefly in 1930. In the center-left governments of 1932-1934, he served as Interior Minister, and became President of the Council again in November 1933. He resigned his posts in January 1934 as a result of the Stavisky Affair.
In Léon Blum's Popular Front government of 1936, Chautemps was a Minister of State, and then succeeded Blum at the head of the government from June 1937 to March 1938.
Pursuing the program of the Popular Front, he proceeded to nationalize the railroads and create the SNCF. He resigned shortly before the Anschluss, and served from April 1938 to 1940 as Vice President of the Council in the governments of ÃÂdouard Daladier and Paul Reynaud, and after the defeat of France, was one of those urging the conclusion of an armistice. He continued as Vice-Premier under Philippe Pétain, but quit after a few weeks.
In November 1940, he left for Washington, and chose to remain there until 1944, when he returned to North Africa. After the war, he split his life between Paris and Washington, where his family resided.
Chautemps's First Ministry, 21 February - 2 March 1930
- Camille Chautemps - President of the Council and Minister of the Interior
- Aristide Briand - Minister of Foreign Affairs
- René Besnard - Minister of War
- Charles Dumont - Minister of Finance
- Maurice Palmade - Minister of Budget
- Louis Loucheur - Minister of Labour, Hygiene, Welfare Work, and Social Security Provisions
- Théodore Steeg - Minister of Justice
- Albert Sarraut - Minister of Marine
- Charles Daniélou - Minister of Merchant Marine
- Laurent Eynac - Minister of Air
- Jean Durand - Minister of Public Instruction and Fine Arts
- Claudius Gallet - Minister of Pensions
- Henri Queuille - Minister of Agriculture
- Lucien Lamoureux - Minister of Colonies
- ÃÂdouard Daladier - Minister of Public Works
- Julien Durand - Minister of Posts, Telegraphs, and Telephones
- Georges Bonnet - Minister of Commerce and Industry
Chautemps's Second Ministry, 26 November 1933 - 30 January 1934
- Camille Chautemps - President of the Council and Minister of the Interior
- Joseph Paul-Boncour - Minister of Foreign Affairs
- ÃÂdouard Daladier - Minister of War
- Georges Bonnet - Minister of Finance
- Paul Marchandeau - Minister of Budget
- Lucien Lamoureux - Minister of Labour and Social Security Provisions
- Eugène Raynaldy - Minister of Justice
- Albert Sarraut - Minister of Marine
- Eugène Frot - Minister of Merchant Marine
- Pierre Cot - Minister of Air
- Anatole de Monzie - Minister of National Education
- Hippolyte Ducos - Minister of Pensions
- Henri Queuille - Minister of Agriculture
- Albert Dalimier - Minister of Colonies
- Joseph Paganon - Minister of Public Works
- Alexandre Israël - Minister of Public Health
- Jean Mistler - Minister of Posts, Telegraphs, and Telephones
- Laurent Eynac - Minister of Commerce and Industry
Changes
- 9 January 1934 - Lucien Lamoureux succeeds Dalimier as Minister of Colonies. Eugène Frot succeeds Lamoureux as Minister of Labour and Social Security Provisions. William Bertrand succeeds Frot as Minister of Merchant Marine.
Chautemps's Third Ministry, 22 June 1937 - 18 January 1938
- Camille Chautemps - President of the Council
- Léon Blum - Vice President of the Council
- Yvon Delbos - Minister of Foreign Affairs
- ÃÂdouard Daladier - Minister of National Defense and War
- Marx Dormoy - Minister of the Interior
- Georges Bonnet - Minister of Finance
- André Février - Minister of Labour
- Vincent Auriol - Minister of Justice
- César Campinchi - Minister of Marine
- Pierre Cot - Minister of Air
- Jean Zay - Minister of National Education
- Albert Rivière - Minister of Pensions
- Georges Monnet - Minister of Agriculture
- Marius Moutet - Minister of Colonies
- Henri Queuille - Minister of Public Works
- Marc Rucart - Minister of Public Health
- Jean-Baptiste Lebas - Minister of Posts, Telegraphs, and Telephones
- Fernand Chapsal - Minister of Commerce
- Paul Faure - Minister of State
- Maurice Viollette - Minister of State
- Albert Sarraut - Minister of State
Chautemps's Fourth Ministry, 18 January - 13 March 1938
- Camille Chautemps - President of the Council
- ÃÂdouard Daladier - Vice President of the Council and Minister of National Defense and War
- Yvon Delbos - Minister of Foreign Affairs
- Albert Sarraut - Minister of the Interior
- Paul Marchandeau - Minister of Finance
- Paul Ramadier - Minister of Labour
- César Campinchi - Minister of Justice
- William Bertrand - Minister of Military Marine
- Paul Elbel - Minister of Merchant Marine
- Guy La Chambre - Minister of Air
- Jean Zay - Minister of National Education
- Robert Lassalle - Minister of Pensions
- Fernand Chapsal - Minister of Agriculture
- Théodore Steeg - Minister of Colonies
- Henri Queuille - Minister of Public Works
- Marc Rucart - Minister of Public Health
- Fernand Gentin - Minister of Posts, Telegraphs, and Telephones
- Pierre Cot - Minister of Commerce
- Georges Bonnet - Minister of State
- Ludovic-Oscar Frossard - Minister of State in charge of the Services of the Presidency of the Council