Background
Doumer was born in Aurillac, in the Cantal département, in France on 22 March 1857.
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Doumer was born in Aurillac, in the Cantal département, in France on 22 March 1857.
Paul Doumer studied law at the University of Paris.
Paul Doumer made his debut in politics as chef de cabinet to Floquet. About 1885, he moved to Paris to seek wider opportunities and abandoned mathematics for journalism, in which he quickly became successful.
In 1895 and 1896 he was minister of finance in the cabinet of Leon Bourgeois. Doumer was Governor-General of French Indochina from 1897 to 1902. In 1902 he returned to France and was elected by Laon to the chamber as a Radical. At the presidential election of the 17th of January 1906 he was a candidate in opposition to M. Fallieres and obtained only 371 votes against 449; and the new chamber passed him over as its new president in favour of Henri Brisson. From 1922 until 1927, he served as president of the committee on finances, and again as minister of finances in 1925.
He was elected president of the Senate in 1927, where he served until 1931. in May 1931 he was elected President of France .
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In 1878 Doumer married to Blanche Richel, whom he had met at college. They had eight children.