Louis Mourier

Mourier 1933

Louis Mourier (born October 8, 1873 in Vézénobres , Département Gard , † February 20, 1960 in Paris ) was a French politician. He was a member of the National Assembly from 1914 to 1924 and a member of the Senate from 1939 to 1945 .

Mourier studied medicine in Montpellier , where he obtained his doctorate. He then worked as a doctor in his hometown of Vézénobres. In 1905 he was elected to the General Council of the Gard department , of which he was president from 1918 to 1940. After he failed in the parliamentary elections in 1910, he entered the National Assembly in 1914 and joined the radical socialists there. Under Paul Painlevé he was made Ministerial Director for War Administration Issues in 1917 . He was replaced just two months later. From 1918 to 1920 he was again Ministerialdirektor, this time for the military medical service. From 1924 he worked for the Assistance publique , a hospital association for the greater Paris area, which is why he did not run for re-election that same year. He was elected to the Senate at the end of 1938 and took up his mandate in 1939. He voted for the Enabling Act of the Vichy regime . After the war he was no longer politically active. Mourier died in 1960.

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1. ↑ Anciens sénateurs IIIème république MOURIER Louis , senat.fr