1. Jules Pams was a French politician who was a deputy from 1893 to 1904, then a senator from 1904 to 1930.
19 Facts About Jules Pams
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Jules Pams was Minister of Agriculture from 1911 to 1913 and Minister of the Interior from 1917 to 1920.
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Jules Pams is known for the "Hotel Pams", a mansion in Perpignan that was redesigned and decorated to his taste, and is a conference center.
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Jules Pams was born on 14 August 1852 in Perpignan, Pyrenees-Orientales, to a leading family in that city.
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Jules Pams attended the lycee Charlemagne and then the Faculty of Law of Paris.
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In 1889 Pams ran for election to the legislature on the Radical list but was not elected.
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Jules Pams became a member of the general council of the Pyrenees-Orientales department in 1892, representing the canton of Argeles-sur-Mer.
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Jules Pams was a member of the general council for thirty six years, and its president for fifteen years.
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In 1888 Jules Pams married Jeanne Bardou, one of the heiresses of the JOB cigarette paper company founded by Jean Bardou.
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The "Hotel Jules Pams" became the social focus of the wealthy elite of the city.
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Jules Pams ran again for election as a deputy in 1893 and was elected in the first round.
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Jules Pams was elected to the Senate on 25 December 1904, and was reelected in 1909,1920 and 1927.
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Jules Pams was mainly involved in issues related to wine and the marine.
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Jules Pams was appointed Minister of Agriculture on 2 March 1911 in the cabinet of Ernest Monis, and retained this portfolio in the subsequent cabinets of Joseph Caillaux and Raymond Poincare, leaving office on 17 January 1913.
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Jules Pams was the originator of the appellation d'origine controlee of the sweet wines of his region.
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Jules Pams arranged the great naval review on 15 September 1911 in Port-Vendres.
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In 1913 Georges Clemenceau encouraged Jules Pams to stand for election as President of France, but he was beaten in the second round of voting by Poincare.
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Jules Pams was relatively obscure by comparison to the very experienced Poincare.
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Jules Pams died at the age of 77 on 12 May 1930 in Paris after a long illness.