Joseph Laniel (; 12 October 18898 April 1975) was a French conservative politician of the Fourth Republic, who served as

Prime Minister A prime minister, premier or chief of cabinet is the head of the cabinet and the leader of the ministers in the executive branch of government, often in a parliamentary or semi-presidential system. Under those systems, a prime minister is ...

for a year from 1953 to 1954. During the middle of his tenure as Prime Minister Laniel was an unsuccessful candidate for the French Presidency, a post won by

René Coty Jules Gustave René Coty (; 20 March 188222 November 1962) was President of France from 1954 to 1959. He was the second and last president of the Fourth French Republic. Early life and politics René Coty was born in Le Havre and studied at t ...

. Co-founder of the

Republican Party of Liberty The Republican Party of Liberty (french: Parti républicain de la liberté, PRL) was a centre-right to right-wing French political party founded after the Liberation of France on 22 December 1945 by Joseph Laniel, André Mutter, Édouard Fré ...

(PRL), then of the

National Center of Independents and Peasants The National Centre of Independents and Peasants (''Centre National des Indépendants et Paysans'', CNIP) is a right-wing agrarian political party in France, founded in 1951 by the merger of the National Centre of Independents (the heir of the ...

(CNIP), Laniel's cabinet was overturned after the French defeat at Dien Bien Phu in

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in 1954. He was succeeded by

Pierre Mendès France Pierre Isaac Isidore Mendès France (; 11 January 190718 October 1982) was a French politician who served as prime minister of France for eight months from 1954 to 1955. As a member of the Radical Party, he headed a government supported by a co ...

Laniel's Ministry, 28 June 1953 – 19 June 1954

*Joseph Laniel – President of the Council *

Henri Queuille Henri Queuille (; 31 March 1884 – 15 June 1970) was a French Radical politician prominent in the Third and Fourth Republics. After World War II, he served three times as Prime Minister. Governments First ministry (11 September 1948 – 28 O ...

– Vice President of the Council * Paul Reynaud – Vice President of the Council * Pierre-Henri Teitgen – Vice President of the Council *

Georges Bidault Georges-Augustin Bidault (; 5 October 189927 January 1983) was a French politician. During World War II, he was active in the French Resistance. After the war, he served as foreign minister and prime minister on several occasions. He joined the ...

– Minister of Foreign Affairs *

René Pleven René Pleven (; 15 April 1901 – 13 January 1993) was a notable French politician of the Fourth Republic. A member of the Free French, he helped found the Democratic and Socialist Union of the Resistance (UDSR), a political party that was mea ...

– Minister of National Defense and Armed Forces * Léon Martinaud-Déplat – Minister of the Interior * Edgar Faure – Minister of Finance and Economic Affairs *

Jean-Marie Louvel Jean-Marie Louvel (1 July 1900 – 13 June 1970) was a French engineer and politician. 1900 births 1970 deaths People from Orne Politicians from Normandy Popular Republican Movement politicians French Ministers of Commerce and I ...

– Minister of Commerce and Industry * Paul Bacon – Minister of Labour and Social Security *

Paul Ribeyre Paul François Ribeyre (11 December 1906 – 14 January 1988) was a French mineral water bottler and liberal conservative politician who was a deputy in the Constituent Assembly and then the National Assembly from 1945 to 1958, then a senator from ...

– Minister of Justice *

André Marie André Marie (3 December 1897 – 12 June 1974) was a French Radical politician who served as Prime Minister during the Fourth Republic in 1948. Biography Born at Honfleur, Calvados, the young André Marie studied at primary and second ...

– Minister of National Education * André Mutter – Minister of Veterans and War Victims * Louis Jacquinot – Minister of Overseas France * Jacques Chastellain – Minister of Public Works, Transport, and Tourism * Paule Coste-Floret – Minister of Public Health and Population * Maurice Lemaire – Minister of Reconstruction and Housing *

Pierre Ferri Pierre Ferri (3 September 1904 – 23 November 1993) was a French stockbroker and conservative politician who was Minister of Posts, Telegraphs, and Telephones in 1953–54. Early years (1904–45) Pierre Ferri was born in Paris on 3 September 1 ...

– Minister of Posts * Edmond Barrachin – Minister of Constitutional Reform * Édouard Corniglion-Molinier – Minister of State Changes *3 June 1954 – Édouard Frédéric-Dupont enters the ministry as Minister of Relations with Partner States.

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