Chautemps entered politics and became Mayor of Tours in 1912, and a Radical deputy in 1919. Between 1924 and 1926 he served in the center-left coalition governments of Édouard Herriot, Paul Painlevé and Aristide Briand, and became President of the Council briefly in 1930. In the center-left governments of 1932-1934, he served as Interior Minister, and became President of the Council again in November 1933. He resigned his posts in January 1934 as a result of the Stavisky Affair.
Pursuing the program of the Popular Front, he proceeded to nationalize the railroads and create the SNCF. He resigned shortly before the Anschluss, and served from April 1938 to 1940 as Vice President of the Council in the governments of Édouard Daladier and Paul Reynaud, and after the defeat of France, was one of those urging the conclusion of an armistice. He continued as Vice-Premier under Philippe Pétain, but quit after a few weeks.
In November 1940, he left for Washington, and chose to remain there until 1944, when he returned to North Africa. After the war, he split his life between Paris and Washington, where his family resided.
Jean Mistler - Minister of Posts, Telegraphs, and Telephones
Laurent Eynac - Minister of Commerce and Industry
Changes
9 January1934 - Lucien Lamoureux succeeds Dalimier as Minister of Colonies. Eugène Frot succeeds Lamoureux as Minister of Labour and Social Security Provisions. William Bertrand succeeds Frot as Minister of Merchant Marine.
