Camille Chautemps

Camille Chautemps (Paris, 1885 - Washington, July 1st 1963) is a politician French, wire of Emile Chautemps.

Political mandates

Graduate of the Faculty of Law
Assistant to the Mayor of Turns in 1912, Mayor of Turns in 1919
Appointed Radical socialist of Indre-et-Loire of 1919 to 1928
Appointed Loir-et-Cher of 1929 to 1934
Senator of the Loiret of 1934 to 1940

Ministerial career

Minister of Interior Department from June 14th, 1924 to April 17th, 1925 in the Government Edouard Herriot (1)
Minister for the Justice from October 29th to November 28th, 1925 in the Government Paul Painlevé (3)
Minister of Interior Department from November 28th, 1925 to March 9th, 1926 in the Government Aristide Briand (8)
Minister of Interior Department from July 17th to 23rd 1926 in the Government Edouard Herriot (2)
President of the Council and Minister of Interior Department from February 21st to March 2nd, 1930 (Government Camille Chautemps (1))
Minister of the State education and the Art schools from December 13rd, 1930 to January 27th, 1931 in the Government Theodore Steeg
Minister interior from June 3rd, 1932 to January 30th, 1934 in the governments Edouard Herriot (3), Joseph Paul-Boncour, Edouard Daladier (1), Albert Sarraut (1) and Camille Chautemps (2)
President of the Council from November 26th, 1933 to January 30th, 1934 (Government Camille Chautemps (2))
Public Minister for Labor from January 24th to June 4th, 1936 in the Government Albert Sarraut (2)
Minister of state from June 4th, 1936 to June 22nd, 1937 in the Government Leon Blum (1)
President of the Council from June 22nd, 1937 to March 13rd, 1938 (governments Camille Chautemps (3) and Camille Chautemps (4))
Vice-president of the Council from April 10th, 1938 to July 12th, 1940 in the governments Edouard Daladier (3), Paul Reynaud and Philippe Pétain

Followed policy

He resigns of the presidency of the Council after the Affaire Stavisky.

He is minister of state for the Popular front, then succeeds Leon Blum of June 1937 at March 1938 with the head of the government.

Starting from 1938, trying to continue the experiment of the Popular front, it carries out the nationalization of the railroads and the creation of the SNCF. It is withdrawn little before the Anschluss. It belongs to the cabinet of Paul Reynaud of 1938 to 1940 and he is vice-president of the Council of the Governments Edouard Daladier, then Government Paul Reynaud, but leaves the Gouvernement Philippe Pétain in July 1940.

In November 1940, it leaves for Washington and chooses to remain there until in 1944, date on which it gains North Africa. After the Release, it shares its life between Paris and Washington, where its family resides.

It was also, in its youth, a player of Rugby to XV of the team first senior of the French Stade (source: Henri Garcia, historian of French Rugby)

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