Jean Dupuy (politician)
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Jean Dupuy (born October 1, 1844 in Saint-Palais , Gironde department , † December 31, 1919 in Paris ) was a French publisher and politician who was a senator and minister several times from 1891 to his death in 1919 .
Life
Publisher, Senator and Minister of Agriculture
Jean Dupuy, son of haberdashery Jacques Dupuy and Magdeleine Thérèse Dupuy, worked in his parents' shop after attending school in his native Saint-Palais and later as a bailiff . In October 1865 he went to Paris with his brother Charles Dupuy, where he first worked in a law firm and in 1870 joined the National Guard ( Garde nationale ) . After the Franco-German War and the end of the Paris Commune in 1871, he resumed work as a bailiff in Paris. In 1879 he also became chairman of the supervisory board of the daily Le Petit Parisien , of which he became managing owner in 1888. On November 16, 1887, he also became the managing owner of the daily Le Siècle .
On January 4, 1891, Dupuy was elected a member of the Senate with 401 of 695 votes and represented the interests of the Hautes-Pyrénées department until his death on December 31, 1919 . At the beginning of his Senate membership he was a member of the Finance Committee, the Naval Committee and the Algeria Committee, and later a budget rapporteur for the Ministry of Agriculture. On June 22, 1899 he was appointed Minister of Agriculture (Ministre de l'Agriculture) to the Waldeck-Rousseau cabinet and held this ministerial office until June 7, 1902. As Minister of Agriculture, he organized the agricultural credits ( Crédit Agricole ) and founded the Office for Agriculture Information (Office de renseignements agricoles) . Furthermore, he was instrumental in the development of the use of industrial alcohol .
Dreyfus affair, re-elections to the Senate and first Moroccan crisis
In the course of the Dreyfus affair , he worked with the Minister for Trade, Industry, Post and Telegraphy Alexandre Millerand and Minister of War Gaston de Galliffet to pardon Alfred Dreyfus from Prime Minister Pierre Waldeck-Rousseau , which was finally given on September 20, 1899 by the President Émile Loubet was signed. On January 28, 1900, Jean Dupuy was re-elected Senator in the first ballot with 552 of 699 votes in the Hautes-Pyrénées department. On June 11th, he defended French wheat producers in the Chamber during the discussion of a law on the import and export of wheat and flour. At the beginning of 1902, the Petit Parisien had a circulation of more than a million copies for the first time. Le Petit Parisien published a new subtitle on April 4, 1904, stating "The largest circulation of a newspaper in the world". In May and June 1905, he was an unofficial negotiator between the French government and the German ambassador in France , Hugo Prince of Radolin , in terms of by the rivalry of France and the German Empire triggered first Moroccan crisis .
In March 1906 Dupuy was elected President of the Union républicaine . On January 3, 1909, he was elected Senator for the third time and this time reached 557 of 673 votes in the first ballot in the Hautes-Pyrénées department.
Other ministerial offices and Vice-President of the Senate
After the formation of the Cabinet Briand I on July 24, 1909, Jean Dupuy took over the office of Minister for Commerce and Industry (Ministre du Commerce et de l'Industrie) and held this until November 2, 1910. The office of Minister for Commerce and Industry From November 3, 1910 to March 2, 1911, he held industry positions in the Briand II cabinet . Almost three weeks later he was elected Vice President of the Senate with 142 of 145 votes cast on March 24, 1911, and on December 22, 1911, he also took over the post of Vice President of a commission to investigate relations with the German Empire in relation to French Congo .
In the Poincaré I cabinet he was appointed Minister for Public Works (Ministre des Travaux publics) and Minister for Post and Telegraphy (Ministre des PTT) on January 14, 1912 . He campaigned for the vigorous pursuit of car traffic violations to reduce the number of deaths from accidents. After the election of Raymond Poincaré as President, he was from January 21 to February 18, 1913 in the Briand III cabinet and between February 18 and March 22, 1913 in the Briand IV cabinet, also Minister for Public Works and Minister for Post and Office Telegraphy. After leaving the government, he was re-elected Vice-President of the Senate on June 17, 1913 with 166 of the 168 votes cast and re-elected as such on January 15, 1914 with 126 of 217 votes cast.
After the Doumergue I cabinet resigned after the general elections of April 26, 1914, Jean Dupuy was asked by President Poincaré to form a government, but the latter refused. Instead, he took over the office of Minister for Public Works (Ministre des Travaux publics) in the Ribot IV cabinet formed on June 9, 1913 , which, however, resigned four days later on June 13, 1914.
World War I, marriage and offspring
At the beginning of the First World War , Jean Dupuy decided to stay in Paris despite relocating the seat of government to Bordeaux . As chairman of the French press committee (Comité des associations de la presse française) , on August 5, 1915, he called on the Senate to lower the tariffs on the import of newsprint. He also took over the Excelsior newspaper, founded by Basil Zaharoff in 1910 . On September 12, 1917, he took over the Cabinet Painlevé I office as Minister of State ( Ministre d'État ) and served as such until November 16, 1917 further with the four ministers of state Louis Barthou , Léon Bourgeois , Paul Doumer and Henry Franklin-Bouillon as Member of the war committee (Comité de guerre, du 12 septembre au 16 novembre 1917) .
Jean Dupuy was a member of the Académie d'agriculture de France and commander of the Ordre du Mérite agricole . From his marriage to Sophie-Alexandrine Legrand the daughter Marie Dupuy, who was married to a grandson of the astronomer François Arago , and the two sons Paul Dupuy and Pierre Dupuy , both of whom were members of the National Assembly . After his death on December 31, 1919, he was buried in the Cimetière du Père-Lachaise , the largest cemetery in Paris.
Web links
- Entry on the Senate homepage
- France: Ministries, political parties, etc. from 1870 in Rulers
Individual evidence
- ^ Cabinet Waldeck-Rousseau
- ^ Cabinet Briand I
- ^ Cabinet Briand II
- ^ Cabinet Poincaré I
- ^ Cabinet Briand III
- ^ Cabinet Briand IV
- ^ Cabinet Ribot IV
- ^ Cabinet Painlevé I
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Dupuy, Jean |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French politician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 1, 1844 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Saint-Palais , Gironde department |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 31, 1919 |
| Place of death | Paris |