Joseph Lebeau
| Joseph Lebeau | |
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| Prime Minister of Belgium | |
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In office 18 April 1840 – 13 April 1841 |
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| Monarch | Leopold I |
| Preceded by | Barthélémy de Theux de Meylandt |
| Succeeded by | Jean-Baptiste Nothomb |
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In office 28 March 1831 – 21 July 1831 |
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| Monarch | Erasme Louis Surlet de Chokier (Regent) |
| Preceded by | Etienne Constantin de Gerlache |
| Succeeded by | Felix de Muelenaere |
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3 January 1794 Huy, Prince-Bishopric of Liège (now Belgium) |
| Died | 19 March 1865 (aged 71) Huy, Belgium |
| Political party | Liberal Party |
| Alma mater | University of Liège |
Jean Louis Joseph Lebeau (3 January 1794 – 19 March 1865) was a Belgian liberal politician and statesman, the second Prime Minister.
Born in Huy, he received his early education from an uncle who was parish priest in Hannut, and became a clerk. He raised money to study Law at the University of Liège, and was called to the bar association in 1819. While in Liège, he formed a fast friendship with Charles Rogier and Paul Devaux, together with whom he founded at Liege in 1824 the Mathieu Laensbergh, afterwards Le politique, a journal which helped to unite the Catholic Party with the Liberals in their opposition to the cabinet, without manifesting any open disaffection to the United Kingdom of the Netherlands.
Lebeau had not aimed for the separation of the Netherlands and Belgium, but his hand was forced by the August Revolution of 1830. He was sent by his native district to the National Congress, and became minister of foreign affairs in March 1831 during the interim regency of Érasme-Louis Surlet de Chokier. By proposing the election of Leopold of Saxe-Coburg as King of the Belgians he secured a benevolent attitude on the part of the United Kingdom, but the restoration to the Netherlands of part of the duchies of Limburg and Luxembourg provoked a heated opposition to the 1839 Treaty of London, and Lebeau was accused of treachery to Belgian interests.
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