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Preceded by
Leon Blum
Political party
Socialist Party
Education
University of Paris
Role
French Politician
Name
Paul Ramadier
Succeeded by
Robert Schuman
Died
October 14, 1961, Rodez, France
Paul Ramadier ([pɔl ʁamadje]; 17 March 1888, La Rochelle – 14 October 1961, Rodez) was a prominent French politician of the Third and Fourth Republics. Mayor of Decazeville, starting in 1919, he served as the first Prime Minister of the Fourth Republic in 1947.
On 10 July 1940, he voted against the granting of the full powers to Marshal Philippe Pétain, who installed the Vichy regime the next day.
Ramadier took part in the Resistance where he used the nom de guerre Violette. His name was included in the Yad Vashem Jewish memorial after the war. It was during his first ministry that the Communists were forced out of the government in May 1947, ending the "tripartisme" coalition between the French Section of the Workers' International (SFIO), Popular Republican Movement and Communists. He voted for the Marshall Plan.
From 1956 until 1957, Ramadier was Minister of Finance under Guy Mollet.
First Ministry (22 January – 22 October 1947)
Paul Ramadier – President of the Council
Maurice Thorez – Vice President of the Council
Georges Bidault – Minister of Foreign Affairs
Paul Coste-Floret – Minister of War
Louis Jacquinot – Minister of Marine
André Maroselli – Minister of Air
Édouard Depreux – Minister of the Interior
Robert Schuman – Minister of Finance
André Philip – Minister of National Economy
Robert Lacoste – Minister of Industrial Production
Ambroise Croizat – Minister of Labour and Social Security
André Marie – Minister of Justice
Marcel Edmond Naegelen – Minister of National Education
François Mitterrand – Minister of Veterans and War Victims
François Tanguy-Prigent – Minister of Agriculture
Pierre Bourdan – Minister of Youth, Arts, and Letters
Marius Moutet – Minister of Overseas France
Jules Moch – Minister of Public Works and Transport
Georges Marrane – Minister of Public Health and Population
Charles Tillon – Minister of Reconstruction and Town Planning.
Jean Letourneau – Minister of Commerce
Félix Gouin – Minister of Planning
Marcel Roclore – Minister of State
Yvon Delbos – Minister of State
Changes:
4 May 1947 – Pierre-Henri Teitgen succeeds Thorez as Vice President of the Council. The other Communist ministers (Croizat, Marranne, and Tillon) also resign.
9 May 1947 – Daniel Mayer succeeds Croizat as Minister of Labour and Social Security. Robert Prigent succeeds Marranne as Minister of Public Health and Population. Jean Letourneau succeeds Tillon as Minister of Reconstruction and Town Planning. Eugène Thomas enters the Cabinet as Minister of Posts.
11 August 1947 – Robert Lacoste succeeds Letourneau as Minister of Commerce, becoming thus Minister of Commerce and Industry.
Second Ministry (22 October – 24 November 1947)
Paul Ramadier – President of the Council
Georges Bidault – Minister of Foreign Affairs
Pierre-Henri Teitgen – Minister of National Defense
Édouard Depreux – Minister of the Interior
Robert Schuman – Minister of Finance
Jules Moch – Minister of Economic Affairs, Planning, Public Works, Transport, Reconstruction, and Town Planning
Robert Lacoste – Minister of Industry
André Marie – Minister of Justice
Marcel Edmond Naegelen – Minister of National Education
Daniel Mayer – Minister of Social Affairs, Veterans, and War Victims
