Gaston Doumergue

Pierre-Paul-Henri-Gaston Doumergue , born with Acute-Sharp (Gard) the 1863 and died in Aigues Sharp the June 18th 1937, is a statesman French.

Biography

Its beginnings

Gaston Doumergue is resulting from a Protestant family. After a license and a doctorate of right to Paris, it is registered in 1885 with the bar of Nimes. In 1893, whereas it is Justice of the Peace with Algiers, it returns in France to Acute-Sharp and presents its candidature for the legislative elections of December 1893. He is elected appointed radical of Nimes, and re-elected on May 8th 1898 and on April 27th 1902. Under the presidency of Emile Loubet, he is Minister for the Colonies (June 7th 1902 January -23 1905) in the government Combes. He is minister without interruption of 1906 with 1910. Of December 9th 1913 at June 8th 1914, it is President of the Council, Foreign Minister at the request of the president Poincaré. During the release of the First World War, he is again Foreign Minister (August 1914), then Minister for the Colonies (August 26th 1914 March -19 1917).

President of the Republic

Its career culminated with its election with the presidency of the Republic on June 13rd 1924 (mandate completed on June 13rd 1931). The left, which had obliged Alexandre Millerand to resign, believed capacity to carry Paul Painlevé to the presidency, but the line thwarted its ambitions while referring massively on Gaston Doumergue, who profited already from part of the voices of left. He declared himself in favor of a policy of firmness with respect to the Germany vis-a-vis reappearing nationalism. Its septennate was marked by a strong ministerial instability.

President of the Council

Its good-naturedness and its sympathetic nerve accent of midday made quickly it popular, so much so that after the bloody events of the February 6th, 1934, one recalled it as President of the Council to form a government of national union where côtoyaient André Tardieu and Edouard Herriot.

This attempt does not succeed: in bad health, it was difficult for him to arbitrate inside one of these cabinets in which one generally puts the greatest hopes because they symbolize the unit of the nation, but which are actually composed ministers come from all the edges of the political chessboard and which does not get along. It was weakened besides by the assassination of Louis Barthou, on October 9th, and preferred to resign on November 8th a little later.

Rene Viviani said of him: “In a well organized democracy Doumergue would be Justice of the Peace in province. ”

Functions

Executive functions

1906 - 1908: Minister Commercial and Industry
1908 - 1910: Minister for the State education and the Art schools
1913 - 1914: president of the Council and Foreign Minister
1914 - 1917: Minister for the Colonies
1923 - 1924: President of the Senate
1924 - 1931: chair Republic
1934: president of the Council

Electoral mandates

1893 - 1906: radical deputy of Nimes
1910 - 1924: senator of the Gard

Note

Gaston Doumergue is to date the only president of the French Republic of confession Protesting E. He is also the only president to be itself married in the course of mandate: in 1931 with Jeanne Low registers.

External bonds

AiguesVives.fr: '' Gaston Doumergue: Biography of a President born with Acute-Sharp (Gard) ''

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