Louis Loucheur

Louis Loucheur (born August 12 1872 in Roubaix; died November 22 1931 in Paris) was a French politician in the Third Republic, member of the conservative Republican Federation.

Unreferenced|date=January 2008Coming from a background in the arms industry, he became Minister of Munitions in September 1917 replacing Albert Thomas and serving in this position until November 26 1918. He then became Minister of Industrial Re-construction, remaining in the position until January 20 1920. He was the principal economic advisor for Georges Clemenceau at the 1919 Paris Peace Conference, which negotiated the Treaty of Versailles. He was briefly Minister of Commerce, Industry, Posts, and Telegraphs under Raymond Poincaré in 1924. He was Minister of Finance in Aristide Briand's seventh Government in 1925 to 1926. In Édouard Herriot's Second Ministry, Loucheur was Minister of Commerce and Industry. From June 1928 to February 1930, he was Minister of Labour, Hygiene, Welfare Work, and Social Security Provisions again under Poincaré.