Antoine Pinay

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Antoine Pinay (December 30, 1891, Saint-Symphorien-sur-Coise, Rhône, France - December 13, 1994) was a French conservative politician. He served as Prime Minister of France from 1952 - 1953 (technically, "president of the Council").

Early in life, Pinay managed a small business. He served as mayor of Saint-Chamond (Loire) from 1929 to 1977. He was elected to the French National Assembly in 1936, running as a conservative. After WWII, he acquired the reputation as one of France's more spirited politicians. He is remembered today as the longest lived former Prime Minister.

After World War II, he helped create a conservative party, the National Center of Independents and Peasants (CNIP). He became Prime Minister in 1952 by virtue of being the most popular elected CNIP official. His ministry was seen as the return of the "classical right," discredited since the Liberation. He stabilized the finances of the French nation and the French currency.

During the May 1958 crisis precipitated by the Algerian war, he supported De Gaulle's return to power and approved of the Fifth Republic's constitution. He served as Finance Minister until 1960.

Because of injuries suffered in WWI, his right arm was paralyzed.

[edit] Pinay's Ministry, 8 March 1952 - 8 January 1953

• Antoine Pinay - President of the Council and Minister of Finance and Economic Affairs
• Henri Queuille - Vice President of the Council
• Robert Schuman - Minister of Foreign Affairs
• René Pleven - Minister of National Defense
• Charles Brune - Minister of the Interior
• Jean-Marie Louvel - Minister of Commerce and Energy
• Pierre Garet - Minister of Labour and Social Security
• Léon Martinaud-Deplat - Minister of Justice
• Pierre-Olivier Lapie - Minister of National Education
• Emmanuel Temple - Minister of Veterans and War Victims
• Camille Laurens - Minister of Agriculture
• Pierre Pflimlin - Minister of Overseas France
• André Morice - Minister of Public Works, Transport, and Tourism
• Paul Ribeyre - Minister of Public Health and Population
• Eugène Claudius-Petit - Minister of Reconstruction and Town Planning
• Roger Duchet - Minister of Posts
• Jean Letourneau - Minister of Relations with Partner States

Changes

• 11 August 1952 - André Marie succeeds Lapie as Minister of National Education.

Preceded by Maurice Bourgès-Maunoury	Minister of Public Works, Transport, and Tourism 1950—1952	Succeeded by André Morice
Preceded by Edgar Faure	Prime Minister of France 1952–1953	Succeeded by René Mayer
Preceded by Robert Buron	Minister of Finance and Economic Affairs 1952–1953	Succeeded by Maurice Bourgès-Maunoury
Preceded by Edgar Faure	Minister of Foreign Affairs 1955–1956	Succeeded by Christian Pineau
Preceded by Edgar Faure	Minister of Finance and Economic Affairs 1958–1960	Succeeded by Wilfrid Baumgartner
Preceded by Édouard Bonnefous	interim Minister of Public Works, Transport, and Tourism 1958	Succeeded by Robert Buron