Fernand Dubief
| Fernand Jean-Baptiste Dubief | |
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| Minister of Commerce, Industry, Posts and Telegraphs | |
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In office 24 January 1905 – 12 November 1905 |
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| Preceded by | Georges Trouillot |
| Succeeded by | Georges Trouillot |
| Minister of the Interior | |
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In office 12 November 1905 – 14 March 1906 |
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| Preceded by | Eugène Étienne |
| Succeeded by | Georges Clemenceau |
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14 October 1850 Varennes-lès-Mâcon, Saône-et-Loire, France |
| Died | 4 June 1916 (aged 65) Asnières-sur-Seine, Seine, France |
| Nationality | French |
Fernand Jean-Baptiste Dubief (14 October 1850 – 4 June 1916) was a French doctor and Radical politician who was Minister of Commerce, Industry and PTT in 1905 and then Minister of the Interior in 1905–06.
Fernand Jean-Baptiste Dubief was born on 14 October 1850 in Varennes-lès-Mâcon, Saône-et-Loire. His father was a Republican and was deported after the 2 December 1851 coup by Napoleon III. Dubief received his secondary education in Mâcon. During the Franco-Prussian War of 1870 he served in the Armée de la Loire. He obtained a diploma as a doctor in 1875. Dubief was medical director of the lunatic asylum of Saint-Pierre in Marseille from 1886 to 1893, and later was superintendent of the Rhone asylum in Lyon. He became a Freemason, and sat on the Council of the Grand Orient, the central Freemasonry authority in France.
In 1893 Dubief was elected mayor of Romanèche-Thorins and was also elected to the Saône-et-Loire departmental general council. In the general elections of 20 August 1893 he was elected in the first round as deputy for the first district of Mâcon. He sat with the Radical Republican and Radical Socialist group. Dubief supported strong measures against strikers. When a private bill was introduced in 1897 to grant amnesty to arrested strikers, Dubief wrote that the bill "would have no other result than to undermine the workings of justice, to the great damage of respect for the laws." Dubief was reelected in the general election of 8 May 1898. He was secretary of the assembly from 1898 to 1900. On 27 April 1902 he was reelected in a landslide.
In 1905 Dubief was chairman of the Radical Socialist group, president of the Commission du Travail, and regarded as an expert of labor issues. Under Maurice Rouvier he was Minister of Commerce, Industry, Posts and Telegraphs from 24 January 1905 to 12 November 1905. On 13 July 1905 Dubief presented a bill requiring ongoing vocational education in the workplace for young workers. This bill was eventually passed in 1919 under the name of Placide Astier. Dubief was responsible for a law that was approved on 8 October 1905 which established a special tariff of medical fees for accidents to working men.
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