Paul Ramadier
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Paul Ramadier (March 17, 1888 - October 14, 1961) was a prominent French Socialist politician of the Third and Fourth Republics. He served as the first Prime Minister of the Fourth Republic in 1947. It was during his first ministry that the Communists were forced out of the government.
Ramadier's 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 Marranne - 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.
Ramadier's 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
- Marcel Roclore - Minister of Agriculture
- Paul Coste-Floret - Minister of Overseas France
- Yvon Delbos - Minister of State
Preceded by: Léon Blum | Prime Minister of France 1947 | Followed by: Robert Schuman |