André Joseph Lefèvre
French politician (1869-1929)
André Joseph Lefèvre (17 June 1869 – 5 November 1929) was a French politician who was Minister of War in 1920.
Life
Early years
André Joseph Lefèvre was born in Paris on 17 June 1869, son of an engineer who was an inspector for the Compagnie des chemins de fer de l'Est.
He attended the Collège Chaptal and then the École des Mines de Paris.
He became the secretary of Alfred Joseph Naquet.
In 1893 he worked for the candidacy of René Viviani as Deputy in the 5th arrondissement of Paris and began to write for the socialist journal La Petite République.
He was elected Municipal Councillor of the Sorbonne district of Paris from 1895 to 1900, and was reelected in 1904.
From 1907 to 1908 he was president of the Paris city council, and then was general counsel of the Seine.
Deputy
Lefèvre ran successfully for election to the chamber of deputies on 24 April 1910 for the first district of Aix-en-Provence, Bouches-du-Rhône.
He sat with the socialist republicans.
On 3 November 1910 he was appointed Under Secretary of State for Finance in the second cabinet of Aristide Briand.
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