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Édouard Herriot

French Radical politician (1872–1957)

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Édouard Marie Herriot (French: [edwaʁ ma.ʁi ɛʁjo]; 5 July 1872 – 26 March 1957) was a French Radical politician of the Third Republic who served three times as Prime Minister (1924–1925; 1926; 1932) and twice as President of the Chamber of Deputies. He led the first Cartel des Gauches. Under the Fourth Republic, he served as President of the National Assembly until 1954. A historian by occupation, Herriot was elected to the Académie Française's eighth seat in 1946. He served as Mayor of Lyon for more than 45 years, from 1905 until his death, except for a brief period from 1940 to 1945, when he saw his movements variously restricted for opposing the Vichy regime.

Herriot was born at Troyes, France on 5 July 1872. As Mayor of Lyon, Herriot improved relations between municipal government and local unions, increased public assistance funds, and began an urban renewal programme, amongst other measures. He died in Lyon on 26 March 1957. He went through a Deathbed conversion to Catholicism with Cardinal Pierre-Marie Gerlier, and was buried at the Loyasse Cemetery "with church ritual".

Herriot's First Ministry, 14 June 1924 – 17 April 1925

Édouard Herriot - President of the Council and Minister of Foreign Affairs

Charles Nollet - Minister of War

Camille Chautemps - Minister of the Interior

Étienne Clémentel - Minister of Finance

Justin Godart - Minister of Labour, Hygiene, Welfare Work, and Social Security Provisions

René Renoult - Minister of Justice

Jacques-Louis Dumesnil - Minister of Marine

François Albert - Minister of Public Instruction and Fine Arts

Édouard Amédée Bovier-Lapierre - Minister of Pensions

Henri Queuille - Minister of Agriculture

Édouard Daladier - Minister of Colonies

Victor Peytral - Minister of Public Works

Eugène Raynaldy - Minister of Commerce and Industry

Victor Dalbiez - Minister of Liberated Regions

3 April 1925 - Anatole de Monzie succeeds Clémentel as Minister of Finance.

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