26 Facts About Joseph Thierry

Joseph Marie Philippe Thierry was a French lawyer and politician.

Joseph Thierry was deputy for Bouches-du-Rhone from 1898 to 1918.

Joseph Thierry was Minister of Public Works in 1913 and Minister of Finance in 1917.

Joseph Marie Philippe Thierry was born on 20 March 1857 in Haguenau, Bas-Rhin.

Joseph Thierry was the son of the last French mayor of Haguenau before the Franco-Prussian War of 1870.

Joseph Thierry's family was expelled by the Germans and took refuge in Marseille, where Joseph Thierry began to study Law.

Joseph Thierry went on to the faculties of Law in Aix-en-Provence and Paris.

Joseph Thierry became an attorney in Marseille specializing in commercial and financial cases.

Joseph Thierry was reelected in the first round in 1902,1906,1910 and 1914.

Joseph Thierry was vice president of the Customs committee from 1902, and president of this committee from 1910 to 1913.

Joseph Thierry was opposed to the bill separating the Church and State.

In 1903 Joseph Thierry was among a group of right-wing members of the Progressistes who formed the new Federation republicaine, a party of the center-right.

From 1906 to 1911 Joseph Thierry was president of the FR as successor to the founding president Eugene Motte.

Joseph Thierry initiated annual party conferences, and managed to increase support for the FR in the provinces.

In 1914 Joseph Thierry joined the centrist Gauche democratique parliamentary group.

Joseph Thierry was Minister of Public Works from 22 March 1913 to 2 December 1913 in the cabinet of Louis Barthou.

In 1913 Joseph Thierry introduced a bill, which was passed, to allow airships to fly over private property.

On 7 May 1916 Joseph Thierry assisted Marcel Sembat, Minister of Public Works, in inaugurating the Rove Tunnel and the first two cranes of Port-de-Bouc.

Joseph Thierry was Minister of Finance from 20 March 1917 to 7 September 1917 under Alexandre Ribot.

Joseph Thierry continued the policies of his predecessor Alexandre Ribot, who had been promoted to president of the council.

Joseph Thierry strengthened controls of foods, particularly wheat and sugar, made insurance against marine war risks compulsory, increased the salaries of civil servants due to the high cost of living, and prepared for the introduction of exchange controls.

Joseph Thierry accompanied Etienne Clementel, Minister of Commerce, to the London Conference, where France negotiated an easing of prohibitions on foreign trade in the agreement of 6 July 1917.

Joseph Thierry was named in the law of 31 July 1917, which continued the fiscal reform that was caused by the introduction of income tax.

Joseph Thierry prepared a budget for "ordinary" non-war government spending.

Joseph Thierry died of a heart attack on 22 September 1918 in San Sebastian, Spain.

Adrien-Joseph Thierry became first secretary of the French embassy in London.