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. | Secretary General | Took office | Left office | Time in office | Country | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Sir Eric Drummond (1876–1951) | 1 August 1920 | 2 July 1933 | 12 years, 336 days | ||
2 | Joseph Avenol (1879–1952) | 3 July 1933 | 31 August 1940 | 7 years, 59 days | ||
3 | Seán Lester (1888–1959) | 31 August 1940 | 18 April 1946 | 5 years, 230 days |
Under Secretaries General
Nation | Name | Term |
---|---|---|
Giacomo Paulucci di Calboli | 1927–1932 | |
Francis Paul Walters | ||
Presidents of the Assembly
Nation | Name | Term |
---|---|---|
Léon Bourgeois | 1920 | |
Paul Hymans 1st time |
1920–1921 | |
Herman Adriaan van Karnebeek | 1921–1922 | |
Agustín Edwards | 1922–1923 | |
Cosme de la Torriente y Peraza | 1923–1924 | |
Giuseppe Motta | 1924–1925 | |
Raoul Dandurand | 1925–1926 | |
Afonso Costa | 1926 | |
Momčilo Ninčić | 1926–1927 | |
Alberto Guani | 1927–1928 | |
Herluf Zahle | 1928–1929 | |
José Gustavo Guerrero | 1929–1930 | |
Nicolae Titulescu | 1930–1932 | |
Paul Hymans 2nd time |
1932–1933 | |
Charles Theodore Te Water | 1933–1934 | |
Rickard Sandler | 1934 | |
Francisco Castillo Nájera | 1934–1935 | |
Edvard Beneš | 1935–1936 | |
Carlos Saavedra Lamas | 1936–1937 | |
Tevfik Rüştü Aras | 1937–1937 | |
Sir Sultan Muhammed Shah, Aga Khan III | 1937–1938 | |
Éamon de Valera | 1938–1939 | |
C. J. Hambro | 1939–1946 | |
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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