Joseph Laniel

French politician

Joseph Laniel


Prime Minister of France
In office 28 June 1953 – 18 June 1954
President	René Coty
Preceded by	René Mayer
Succeeded by	Pierre Mendès France

Personal details
Born	12 October 1889 Vimoutiers, France^[1]
Died	8 April 1975(1975-04-08) (aged 85) Paris, France
Political party	CNIP

Joseph Laniel (French pronunciation: [ʒɔzɛf lanjɛl]; 12 October 1889 – 8 April 1975) was a French conservative politician of the Fourth Republic, who served as Prime Minister for a year from 1953 to 1954. During the middle of his tenure as Prime Minister Laniel was an unsuccessful candidate for the French Presidency, a post won by René Coty.

Laniel was born at Vimoutiers in Normandy to a family that ran a successful textile factory.^[2]

On 10 July 1940, he voted in favour of granting the cabinet presided by Marshal Philippe Pétain authority to draw up a new constitution, thereby effectively ending the French Third Republic and establishing Vichy France. However, he later joined the French Resistance and was one of the founders of the National Council of the Resistance (CNR).

Co-founder of the Republican Party of Liberty (PRL), then of the National Center of Independents and Peasants (CNIP), Laniel's cabinet was overturned after the French defeat at Dien Bien Phu in Indochina in 1954. He was succeeded by Pierre Mendès France.

Laniel's Ministry, 28 June 1953 – 19 June 1954

Joseph Laniel – President of the Council
Henri Queuille – Vice President of the Council
Paul Reynaud – Vice President of the Council
Pierre-Henri Teitgen – Vice President of the Council
Georges Bidault – Minister of Foreign Affairs
René Pleven – Minister of National Defense and Armed Forces
Léon Martinaud-Déplat – Minister of the Interior
Edgar Faure – Minister of Finance and Economic Affairs
Jean-Marie Louvel – Minister of Commerce and Industry
Paul Bacon – Minister of Labour and Social Security
Paul Ribeyre – Minister of Justice
André Marie – Minister of National Education
André Mutter – Minister of Veterans and War Victims
Louis Jacquinot – Minister of Overseas France
Jacques Chastellain – Minister of Public Works, Transport, and Tourism
Paule Coste-Floret – Minister of Public Health and Population
Maurice Lemaire – Minister of Reconstruction and Housing
Pierre Ferri – Minister of Posts
Edmond Barrachin – Minister of Constitutional Reform
Édouard Corniglion-Molinier – Minister of State

Changes

3 June 1954 – Édouard Frédéric-Dupont enters the ministry as Minister of Relations with Partner States.

References

^ Tucker, Spencer C. (2011). "Laniel, Joseph". The encyclopedia of the Vietnam War : a political, social, and military history (2nd ed.). ABC-CLIO. p. 626. ISBN 9781851099610.
^ Tucker, Spencer (2011). The Encyclopedia of the Vietnam War: A Political, Social, and Military History. ABC-CLIO. p. 626. ISBN 9781851099610.

Political offices
Preceded by Charles Brune	Minister of Posts 1951	Succeeded by Roger Duchet
Preceded by Maurice Petsche	Minister of State 1951–1952	Succeeded by (none)
Preceded by René Mayer	Prime Minister of France 1953–1954	Succeeded by Pierre Mendès France