French politician who was the 13th president of the French Third Republic from 13 June 1931 until his assassination on 7 May 1932. He made his debut in politics in 1885 as chef de cabinet to Charles Floquet.
He was briefly Minister of Finance of France (1895–1896) when he tried without success to introduce an income tax. He was Governor-General of French Indochina from 1897 to 1902.
Doumer became Minister of Finance of France again in 1925 when Louis Loucheur resigned. He then served as President of the French Senate from 1927 until the 1931 presidential election. He was elected President of the French Republic on 13 May 1931.
He came from a family of modest means. Spartan early life. 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 had eight children, four of whom were killed in the First World War (including the French air ace René Doumer).
On 6 May 1932, Doumer was in Paris at the opening of a book fair at the Hôtel Salomon de Rothschild, talking to author Claude Farrère. Suddenly several shots were fired by Paul Gorguloff, a Russian émigré.
Two of the shots hit Doumer, at the base of the skull and in the right armpit, and he fell to the ground. He was rushed to the hospital in Paris, where he died at 04:37 on 7 May. He is the only French president to die of a gunshot wound.
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