Fernand Dubief
French politician (1850-1916)
Fernand Jean-Baptiste Dubief (14 October 1850 – 4 June 1916) was a French medical doctor and Radical politician who was Minister of Commerce, Industry and PTT in 1905 and then Minister of the Interior in 1905–06.
Early years
Fernand Jean-Baptiste Dubief was born on 14 October 1850 in Varennes-lès-Mâcon, Saône-et-Loire.
His father was a Republican and was deported after the 2 December 1851 coup by Napoleon III.
Dubief received his secondary education in Mâcon.
During the Franco-Prussian War of 1870 he served in the Armée de la Loire.
He obtained a diploma as a doctor in 1875.
Dubief was medical director of the lunatic asylum of Saint-Pierre in Marseille from 1886 to 1893, and later was superintendent of the Rhone asylum in Lyon.
He became a Freemason, and sat on the Council of the Grand Orient, the central Freemasonry authority in France.
Political career
In 1893, Dubief was elected mayor of Romanèche-Thorins and was also elected to the Saône-et-Loire departmental general council.
In the general elections of 20 August 1893 he was elected in the first round as deputy for the first district of Mâcon.
He sat with the Radical Republican and Radical Socialist group.
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