List of leaders of the League of Nations
The leaders of the League of Nations consisted of a Secretary-General, Deputy Secretary-General and a President of the Assembly selected from member states.
Secretaries General[]
No. | Portrait | Secretary General | Took office | Left office | Time in office | Country |
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1 | Sir Eric Drummond (1876–1951) | 1 August 1920 | 2 July 1933 | 12 years, 336 days | United Kingdom | |
2 | Joseph Avenol (1879–1952) | 3 July 1933 | 31 August 1940 | 7 years, 59 days | France | |
3 | Seán Lester (1888–1959) | 31 August 1940 | 18 April 1946 | 5 years, 230 days | Ireland |
Deputy Secretaries General[]
No. | Portrait | Name | Term | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Jean Monnet | 1919–1923 | France | |
2 | Joseph Avenol | 1923–1932 | France | |
3 | Pablo de Azcárate | 1933–1936 | Spain | |
Massimo Pilotti | 1933–1936 | Italy | ||
4 | Seán Lester | 1937–1940 | Ireland | |
1937–1940 | United Kingdom |
Under Secretaries General[]
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Nation | Name | Term |
---|---|---|
United States of America | Raymond B. Fosdick | 1919 (provisional) |
Italy | Bernardo Attolico | 1919–1920 |
Italy | Dionisio Anzilotti | 1920–1921 |
Germany | Albert Dufour-Feronce | 1927–1932 |
Italy | 1927–1932 | |
Germany | 1932–1933 | |
United Kingdom | 1933–1939 | |
USSR | Vladimir Sokoline | 1937–1939 |
Argentina | 1938–1943 | |
Greece | Thanassis Aghnides | 1939–1942 |
Presidents of the Assembly[]
Nation | Name | Term |
---|---|---|
France | Léon Bourgeois | 1920 |
Belgium | Paul Hymans 1st time |
1920–1921 |
Netherlands | Herman Adriaan van Karnebeek | 1921–1922 |
Chile | Agustín Edwards | 1922–1923 |
Cuba | Cosme de la Torriente y Peraza | 1923–1924 |
Switzerland | Giuseppe Motta | 1924–1925 |
Canada | Raoul Dandurand | 1925–1926 |
Portugal | Afonso Costa | 1926 |
Yugoslavia | Momčilo Ninčić | 1926–1927 |
Uruguay | Alberto Guani | 1927–1928 |
Denmark | Herluf Zahle | 1928–1929 |
El Salvador | José Gustavo Guerrero | 1929–1930 |
Romania | Nicolae Titulescu | 1930–1932 |
Belgium | Paul Hymans 2nd time |
1932–1933 |
South Africa | Charles Theodore Te Water | 1933–1934 |
Sweden | Rickard Sandler | 1934 |
Mexico | Francisco Castillo Nájera | 1934–1935 |
Czechoslovakia | Edvard Beneš | 1935–1936 |
Argentina | Carlos Saavedra Lamas | 1936–1937 |
Turkey | Tevfik Rüştü Aras | 1937–1937 |
India | Sir Sultan Muhammed Shah, Aga Khan III | 1937–1938 |
Ireland | Éamon de Valera | 1938–1939 |
Norway | C. J. Hambro | 1939–1946 |
See also[]
- List of secretaries-general of the United Nations
References[]
- Northedge, F. S. (1986) The League of Nations: Its Life and Times, 1920–1946 Holmes & Meier, New York, ISBN 0-7185-1316-9
- Scott, George (1973) The Rise and Fall of the League of Nations Hutchinson & Co LTD, London, ISBN 0-09-117040-0
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