French Workers' Party - Principal Members

Principal Members

  • Jules Guesde (1845–1922), Founding member, elected deputy.
  • Paul Lafargue (1842–1911), son in law of Karl Marx, elected deputy.
  • Marcel Cachin (1869–1958), member from 1891, led the SFIO Tours split in 1920, future director of L'Humanité.
  • Alexandre Bracke-Desrousseaux (1861–1955), professor (Greek Philosophy), future elected deputy for the SFIO.
  • Alexandre Zévaès (1873–1953), elected deputy Isère (1898–1910).
  • Bernard Cadenat (1853–1930), shemaker, elected deputy Bouches-du-Rhône (1898-1919 et 1924-1930), Mayor of Marseille (1910–1912).
  • Ulysse Pastre (1864–1930), researcher, elected deputy Gard (1898–1910).
  • Jean-Baptiste Bénézech (1852–1909), printer, elected deputy Hérault (1898–1909), president of the typography workers union.
  • René Chauvin (1860–1936), barber, elected deputy Seine (1893–1898), founder of the coiffeurs workers union. In 1914, he quit the SFIO to found a small workers party promoing a return to class war.
  • Hubert Lagardelle (1875–1968), revolutionary syndicalist.
  • Prosper Ferrero, elected deputy for Marseille in 1898-1910, mayor of Toulon (1893), vice-président du conseil général (1914–1915).
  • Jean Bertrand : elected deputy for Corbeil
  • Other elected deputies : Philippe Krauss, Bernard, Dufour, etc.
  • Pierre Melin(1863–1929) Lutheran, vice-président of Prud'hommes de Valenciennes, elected deputy.
  • Georges Vacher de Lapouge (1854–1936) antisemitic anthropologist and eugenist, Procureur de la République and professor.

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