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Gaston Doumergue

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Gaston Doumergue , 1863–1937, president of the French republic (1924–31). He entered national politics in 1893 as a Radical Socialist deputy and served in various cabinets before and during World War I. After serving as president he retired, but when the cabinet of Édouard Daladier fell in Feb., 1934, as a result of the Stavisky Affair , Doumergue was called on to be the "strong man" of France and to restore order. Premier of a coalition cabinet, he asked for extraordinary powers to meet the financial and political crises. These demands caused the fall of his cabinet, which was succeeded (Nov., 1934) by another under P. E. Flandin.

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Doumergue, Gaston (b. 1 Aug. 1863, d. 18 June 1937). French President 1924–31 A Radical member of the Chamber of Deputies 1893–1910, he became a Senator in 1910, then Prime Minister and Foreign Secretary in 1913–14. In 1924, he was the first Protestant to become President of France. In 1934, he came back from retirement to head a government of national union as Prime Minister in order to respond to the Stavisky scandal.

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