Jean Duvieusart
{{Short description|Belgian politician (1900–1977)}}
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{{Infobox officeholder
|name = Jean Duvieusart
|image = Jean Duvieusart.jpg
|office = Prime Minister of Belgium
|monarch = Leopold III
|1blankname = Regent
|1namedata = Prince Charles
Prince Baudouin
|term_start = 8 June 1950
|term_end = 16 August 1950
|predecessor = Gaston Eyskens
|successor = Joseph Pholien
|office1 = President of the European Parliament
| order1 = 5th
|term_start1 = 21 March 1964
|term_end1 = 24 September 1965
|predecessor1= Gaetano Martino
|successor1 = Victor Leemans
|birth_date = {{birth date|1900|4|10|df=y}}
|birth_place = Les Bons Villers, Belgium
|death_date = {{death date and age|1977|10|10|1900|4|10|df=y}}
|death_place = Charleroi, Belgium
|party = Christian Social Party
}}
Jean Pierre Duvieusart ({{IPA|fr|ʒɑ̃ pjɛʁ dyvjøzaʁ}}; 10 April 1900{{cite web |title=Jean Duvieusart |url=https://academieroyale.be/fr/la-biographie-nationale-personnalites-detail/personnalites/jean-duvieusart/Vrai/ |website=academieroyale.be |access-date=2 January 2025 |language=fr}} – 10 October 1977) was a Belgian politician of the PSC-CVP who served as the prime minister of Belgium from June to August in 1950.
Political career
Jean Duvieusart became a member of the Chamber of Representatives in 1944, serving until 1949, when he became a member of the Senate.{{cite web |title=DUVIEUSART Jean {{!}} Connaître la Wallonie |url=https://connaitrelawallonie.wallonie.be/fr/wallons-marquants/dictionnaire-des-wallons/duvieusart-jean |website=connaitrelawallonie.wallonie.be |access-date=2 January 2025}} He was a member of the Senate until 1965.{{cite web |title=Jean Duvieusart - Munzinger Biographie |url=https://www.munzinger.de/search/go/document.jsp?id=00000007581 |website=www.munzinger.de |access-date=2 January 2025}}
Duvieusart served as Minister of Economic Affairs (1947-1950 and 1952-1954).{{cite web |title=Jean Duvieusart {{!}} enciclopedia.cat |url=https://www.enciclopedia.cat/gran-enciclopedia-catalana/jean-duvieusart |website=www.enciclopedia.cat |access-date=2 January 2025}}
In 1950, he served two months as the 36th Prime Minister of Belgium but he resigned after the abdication of King Leopold III.{{cite book |last1=Theakston |first1=K. |last2=Vries |first2=J. de |last3=Vries |first3=Jouke de |title=Former Leaders in Modern Democracies: Political Sunsets |date=5 April 2012 |publisher=Springer |isbn=978-1-137-26531-9 |url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/Former_Leaders_in_Modern_Democracies/2DP-rillKigC?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=Jean%20Duvieusart%20%221950%22 |access-date=2 January 2025 |language=en|quote=He was succeeded by the 'Leopoldist' lawyer Jean Duvieusart, who had to resign after 64 days because he did not manage to cope with the outburst of a quasi civil war following the referendum on the return of the king.}}
He was president of the European Parliament (1964–1965).{{cite web |title=Former European Parliament Presidents |url=https://www.europarl.europa.eu/former_ep_presidents/president-schulz-2014-2016/en/president/former_european_parliament_presidents.html |website=European Parliament |access-date=2 January 2025 |language=en}}{{cite book |title=European Parliament: The First Ten Years, 1958-1968 |date=1968 |publisher=General Secretariat of the European Parliament |page=89 |url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/European_Parliament/ex8mAAAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=Jean+Duvieusart+European+Parliament+%221965%22&dq=Jean+Duvieusart+European+Parliament+%221965%22&printsec=frontcover |access-date=2 January 2025 |language=en}}
He left the PSC in 1965 and became president and co-founder of the Rassemblement wallon{{cite book |last1=Bauer |first1=Raoul |title=De Lage Landen: een geschiedenis in de spiegel van Europa |date=1994 |publisher=Lannoo Uitgeverij |isbn=978-90-209-2263-9 |page=718 |url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/De_Lage_Landen/1Wbp7KD4krIC?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=Jean+Duvieusart+PSC+%22Rassemblement+wallon%22&pg=PA718&printsec=frontcover |access-date=2 January 2025 |language=nl}} and the Front Démocratique des Bruxellois Francophones (FDF) (1968–1972).
Personal life
On 8 July 1930, Duvieusart married Blanche Dijon (18 November 1907 – 24 February 1984) and had three sons and one daughter, Philippe (born 1932), Léopold (born 1933), Étienne (born 1935) and Thérèse (1939).{{Cite web|url=https://gw.geneanet.org/pierfit?lang=en&p=alexandrine+blanche&n=dijon&oc=1|title = Family tree of Alexandrine Blanche DIJON}}{{Cite web|url=https://gw.geneanet.org/bn104583?lang=fr&p=jean&n=duvieusart|title=Généalogie de Jean DUVIEUSART}}
See also
- Royal Question, Belgium
References
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External links
- [http://www.odis.be/lnk/en/PS_7000 Jean Duvieusart] in [https://www.odis.eu ODIS - Online Database for Intermediary Structures] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160428134547/https://www.odis.eu/ |date=28 April 2016 }}
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