Jules Pams
Jules Pams (born August 14, 1852 in Perpignan , † May 12, 1930 in Paris ) was a French lawyer and politician of the Third Republic . He was Minister of Agriculture from 1911 to 1913 and Minister of the Interior from 1917 to 1920 .
Life
Pams attended the Lycée Charlemagne and then completed a law degree at the University of Paris . After completing his studies, he was admitted to the bar in Perpignan and then worked for the local bar association. In addition to his legal work, he ran a paper mill in Perpignan. He was also the owner of the Château de Valmy near Argelès-sur-Mer .
Pams was elected to the General Council of the Canton of Argelès-sur-Mer in 1892, of which he was a member for 36 years and of which he was President for 15 years. He had already started his political career in 1889 as a candidate for the election to the Chamber of Deputies , when he stood on the list of radicals in Céret . Four years later he finally entered parliament. From 1893 to 1902 he was a member of the parliamentary group of the radical left and then until he left the Chamber of Deputies in 1905 a member of the group of the radical socialists. From December 1904, when he replaced the late Senator Élie Delcros , until his death he was a member of the Senate for the Pyrénées-Orientales department . The focus of his policy in both parliaments was viticulture and the navy.
From March 2, 1911 to January 17, 1913, he served as Minister of Agriculture in the governments led by Prime Ministers Ernest Monis , Joseph Caillaux and Raymond Poincaré .
After his party friends, above all Georges Clemenceau , had asked to succeed Armand Fallières , Pams ran for the presidential election in January 1913 , in which he received 296 votes in the second ballot. His biggest competitor Poincaré won the election. He got 483 votes and became the new president, while the socialist Édouard Vaillant took third place with 69 votes.
During the First World War , Pams approached the political positions of Clemenceau, whose government he was a minister of the interior from November 16, 1917 to January 20, 1920.
In 1927 he was a delegate of France at the eighth session of the League of Nations .
Pams died on May 12, 1930 after a long illness in Paris and was buried in the cemetery of Port-Vendres . A street was later named after him in Port-Vendres.
His great-nephew Gaston Pams (1918-1981) was also a politician and from 1959 to 1981 also a senator for the Pyrénées-Orientales department.
Web links
- Jules Pams at the Assemblée nationale
- Jules Pams at the Sénat
Individual evidence
- ↑ Jean-Louis Escudier: Edmond Bartissol 1841-1916. Du canal de Suez à la bouteille d'apéritif. Éditions du Center national de la recherche scientifique , Paris 2000, ISBN 2-271-05798-1 . P. 97. (here: explanation of the incorrect indication of the year of birth 1835 in the Dictionnaire des parlementaires français , Ed. Jean Jolly)
| predecessor | Office | successor |
|---|---|---|
| Théodore Steeg |
Minister of the Interior of France November 16, 1917 - January 20, 1920 |
Théodore Steeg |
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Pams, Jules |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French lawyer and politician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 14, 1852 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Perpignan |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 12, 1930 |
| Place of death | Paris |