page_title: Fernand Chapsal
section_title: Political career
hierarchical_section_title: Fernand Chapsal / Political career
caption_attribution_description: Français&#160;: Vu du parc, monument.
context_page_description: Fernand Chapsal was a French lawyer, administrator and politician who was Minister of Commerce in 1926 and in 1937–38, and Minister of Agriculture in 1938.
context_section_description: In 1919 Chapsal was elected mayor of Saintes and councilor-general of Charente-Inférieure. On 17 July 1921 he was elected senator for Charente-Inférieure in a by-election following the death of Émile Combes. He joined the Democratic Left. He was a member of the Customs Committee until 1937, and was president of the committee from 1926. He was particularly interested in questions of agriculture and economics. He was Minister of Commerce and Industry from 23 June 1926 to 15 July 1926 in the cabinet of Aristide Briand. In August 1926 he was appointed French delegate to the Reparations Commission, replacing Louis Barthou.
  Chapsal was reelected to the senate on 14 January 1930. In January 1937 he was elected vice-president of the senate. He was Minister of Commerce from 22 June 1937 to 18 January 1938 in the 3rd cabinet of Camille Chautemps. He was Minister of Agriculture from 18 January 1938 to 13 March 1938 in the 4th cabinet of Camille Chautemps. He was reelected to the senate on 10 January 1939.
  Fernand Chapsal died on 10 February 1939 in Neuilly, Seine. He was the grandfather of the author Madeleine Chapsal and the great-grandfather of the author Jérôme Hesse. A public garden and a road in Saintes were named after him.
caption: Monument to Chapsal in the public garden in Saintes
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