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Camille Chautemps, French politician
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Camille Chautemps, French politician

Camille Chautemps (February 1, 1885 in Paris – July 1, 1963 in Washington, D.C., U.S.) was a French Radical politician of the Third Republic, three times President of the Council (Prime Minister).

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Career

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 Édouard Herriot, Paul Painlevé and Aristide Briand, and became President of the Council briefly in 1930. Again in center-left governments in 1932-1934, he served as Interior Minister, and became Prime Minister 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 Édouard Daladier and Paul Reynaud, and after the fall 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, D.C., and chose to remain there until 1944, when he returned to French North Africa. After World War II, he split his life between Paris and Washington, where his family resided.

Chautemps's First Ministry,

Chautemps's Second Ministry, 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,

Chautemps's Fourth Ministry,
  • Camille Chautemps - President of the Council
  • Édouard 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

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