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...Chief Executive is a combination of President and Premier???virtually a dictator. After the Franco-Prussian War in 1871, M. Thiers, in similar circumstances, temporarily assumed the office of Chief of Executive Power in France...
This was the situation when the 68th Congress assembled for its first session. The country waited to see what the new President had to offer in his premier???his first message to Congress...
...deceased statesman held no fewer than ten political posts during his lifetime. He was on four occasions Premier???1879, 1882, 1886, 1890; Minister of War, 1870, 1885, 1888, 1898; Minister of Public Works 1877. In 1887 he stood for the presidency, but was defeated by Sadi Carnot. In 1882 he was elected to the Academic des Sciences and in 1890 he was elected to the Academic Franchise in the room of Emile Augier. In 1915 he was appointed Minister without portfolio in the Briand administration. He wrote many books, the best of which were on such subjects as railway economics...
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