Jean Duvieusart
Jean Duvieusart | |
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| Prime Minister of Belgium | |
| In office 8 June 1950 – 16 August 1950 | |
| Monarch | Leopold III |
| Regent | Prince Charles Prince Baudouin |
| Preceded by | Gaston Eyskens |
| Succeeded by | Joseph Pholien |
| President of the European Parliament | |
| In office 21 March 1964 – 24 September 1965 | |
| Preceded by | Gaetano Martino |
| Succeeded by | Victor Leemans |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 10 April 1900 Les Bons Villers, Belgium |
| Died | 10 October 1977 (aged 77) Charleroi, Belgium |
| Political party | Christian Social Party |
Jean Pierre Duvieusart (French pronunciation: [ʒɑ̃ pjɛʁ dyvjøzaʁ]; 10 April 1900[1] – 10 October 1977) was a Belgian politician of the PSC-CVP who served as prime minister of Belgium from June to August in 1950.
Political career
[edit]Jean Duvieusart became a member of the Chamber of Representatives in 1944, serving until 1949, when he became a member of the Senate.[2] He was a member of the Senate until 1965.[3]
Duvieusart served as Minister of Economic Affairs (1947-1950 and 1952-1954).[4]
In 1950 he served two months as the 36th Prime Minister of Belgium but he resigned after the abdication of King Leopold III.[5]
He was president of the European Parliament (1964–1965).[6][7]
He left the PSC in 1965 and became president and co-founder of the Rassemblement wallon[8] and the Front Démocratique des Bruxellois Francophones (FDF) (1968–1972).
Personal life
[edit]On 8 July 1930, Duvieusart married Blanche Dijon (18 November 1907 – 24 February 1984) and had three sons and one daughter, Philippe (born 1932), Léopold (born 1933), Étienne (born 1935) and Thérèse (1939).[9][10]
See also
[edit]- Royal Question, Belgium
References
[edit]- ^ "Jean Duvieusart". academieroyale.be (in French). Retrieved 2 January 2025.
- ^ "DUVIEUSART Jean | Connaître la Wallonie". connaitrelawallonie.wallonie.be. Retrieved 2 January 2025.
- ^ "Jean Duvieusart - Munzinger Biographie". www.munzinger.de. Retrieved 2 January 2025.
- ^ "Jean Duvieusart | enciclopedia.cat". www.enciclopedia.cat. Retrieved 2 January 2025.
- ^ Theakston, K.; Vries, J. de; Vries, Jouke de (5 April 2012). Former Leaders in Modern Democracies: Political Sunsets. Springer. ISBN 978-1-137-26531-9. Retrieved 2 January 2025.
He was succeeded by the 'Leopoldist' lawyer Jean Duvieusart, who had to resign after 64 days because he did not manage to cope with the outburst of a quasi civil war following the referendum on the return of the king.
- ^ "Former European Parliament Presidents". European Parliament. Retrieved 2 January 2025.
- ^ European Parliament: The First Ten Years, 1958-1968. General Secretariat of the European Parliament. 1968. p. 89. Retrieved 2 January 2025.
- ^ Bauer, Raoul (1994). De Lage Landen: een geschiedenis in de spiegel van Europa (in Dutch). Lannoo Uitgeverij. p. 718. ISBN 978-90-209-2263-9. Retrieved 2 January 2025.
- ^ "Family tree of Alexandrine Blanche DIJON".
- ^ "Généalogie de Jean DUVIEUSART".
External links
[edit]- Jean Duvieusart in ODIS - Online Database for Intermediary Structures Archived 28 April 2016 at the Wayback Machine
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