Gabriel Baron

{{Short description|French lawyer and politician}}

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Gabriel Baron (23 December 1859 – 22 October 1928) was a French lawyer and politician. He served as the Mayor of Aix-en-Provence in 1896, and as a member of the National Assembly of France from 1897 to 1898, from 1902 to 1906, and from 1906 to 1910.

Biography

=Early life=

Gabriel Baron was born on 23 December 1859 in Marseille, Alpes-Maritimes department.[http://www.assemblee-nationale.fr/sycomore/fiche.asp?num_dept=424 National Assembly] He studied Law.Bernard Demangeot, Aix-en-Provence et la Famille Zola, Les Vents Contraires, 2002, p. 241

=Career=

He started his working life as a lawyer. He decided to embark upon a career in politics. He was elected to the General Council in 1895 and later served as the mayor of Aix-en-Provence from 1896 to 1897.Leo A. Loubère, Radicalism in Mediterranean France: Its Rise and Decline, 1848–1914, Albany, New York: State University of New York Press, 1974, p. 202 [https://books.google.com/books?id=I9gXed3hj_0C&dq=%22Gabriel+Baron%22+aix&pg=PA202]Adéodat Constant Adolphe Compère-Morel, Encyclopédie socialiste: Les fédérations socialistes, A. Quillet, p. 165 [https://books.google.com/books?id=j3Ltd5-cCwkC&q=%22Gabriel+Baron%22+aix]

Interested in gaining national clout, he ran in the legislative election of 1897, and won.Paul Masson, Les Bouches-du-Rhône: encyclopédie départementale, Archives départmentales des Bouches-du-Rhône, 1929, Volume 5, p. 236 [https://books.google.com/books?id=VcU6AQAAMAAJ&q=%22Gabriel+Baron%22+maire+aix] He went on to serve as a member of the National Assembly for the Bouches-du-Rhône three times: from 14 March 1897 to 31 May 1898, from 11 May 1902 to 31 May 1906 and finally from 6 May 1906 to 31 May 1910. He was an Independent Socialist.

=Death=

He died on 22 October 1928 in Cannes, Alpes-Maritimes department.

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