Doumer, Paul

Doumer, Paul

▪ president of France

born March 22, 1857, Aurillac, Fr.
died May 6, 1932, Paris
 the 13th president of the French Third Republic whose term was cut short by an assassin's bullet.

      In 1889 Doumer was elected as a Radical deputy from the Yonne département, and his reputation as a fiscal expert led to his appointment (1895) as minister of finance in the Cabinet of Léon Bourgeois. Unsuccessful in his efforts to introduce a national income tax, he was appointed governor general of Indochina the following year.

      Doumer was one of the most active and, from the French point of view, effective governors general of Indochina. Unlike many of his predecessors and successors he occupied his post for a sustained period (1897–1902) and had clearly defined aims. His most important achievements were to strengthen the hold of the governor general over the administrators at the head of the various components of Indochina and to place the colonial economy on a sound basis. While this latter development was welcomed by the French, it involved rigorous imposition of taxes on the local population, which caused deep resentment.

      Doumer returned to the Chamber of Deputies in 1902 and then moved to the Senate (1912) as representative of Corsica. In 1903 he wrote L'Indochine française and in 1906 Le Livre de mes fils (“The Book of My Sons”). From 1927 to 1931 he was president of the Senate and chairman of the important budget commission. In addition, he served as finance minister in the Briand cabinets of January 1921 to January 1922 and December 1925 to March 1926.

      Doumer's election to the presidency on May 13, 1931, was popularly received and he successfully weathered ministerial crises caused by the deaths of André Maginot and Aristide Briand. He was fatally shot by a Russian anarchist, Pavel Gorgulov.

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