Albert Dalimier

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Albert François Marie Dalimier (20 February 1875 – 6 May 1936) was a French Radical politician who served in several short-lived cabinets in the early 1930s. He held the posts of Minister of Labor (June 1932 to January 1933), Minister of the Colonies (September–October 1933 and again November 1933 to January 1934), and Minister of Justice (October–November 1933). He resigned in January 1934 amid the Stavisky affair, after it emerged that his advice to social insurance funds about investing in Crédit Municipal bonds could have aided the fraud. He was expelled from the Radical Party in March 1934. Dalimier did not run for election in 1936 and died at 61 in Neuilly-sur-Seine.

Born in Bordeaux, he trained as a lawyer and began his career working with Léon Mougeot. He was a long-time deputy for Corbeil in Seine-et-Oise, first elected in 1906, and served in René Viviani’s government as under-secretary of state for Fine Arts from 1914 to 1917. After World War I he returned to Parliament, being elected again in 1924, 1928, and 1932. He belonged to the Radical Republicans and Radical Socialists, supporting disarmament, the League of Nations, and a progressive income tax. He was known for his oratory, though he introduced only a few bills during his long career.