Paul Doumer [SEP] manner of death
Paul Doumer
Joseph Athanase Doumer, commonly known as Paul Doumer (; 22 March 18577 May 1932), was the President of France from 13 June 1931 until his assassination on 7 May 1932.
Biography.
Joseph Athanase Doumer was born in Aurillac, in the Cantal "département", in France on 22 March 1857. Alumnus of the Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers, he became a professor of mathematics at Mende in 1877.
In 1878 Doumer married Blanche Richel, whom he had met at college. They
. There Fallières remained independent of party struggles, although maintaining his influence among the Republicans.
In March 1899 he was elected president of the senate, and retained that position until January 1906, when he was chosen by a union of the groups of the Left in both chambers as candidate for the presidency of the republic. He was elected on the first ballot by 449 votes against 371 for his opponent, Paul Doumer.
Fallières was an outspoken opponent of the death penalty and commuted the sentences of many prisoners sentenced to