Robert Comtesse (14 August 1847 – 17 November 1922) was a Swiss politician and member of the Swiss Federal Council (1899-1912).
He was elected to the Federal Council of Switzerland on 14 December 1899 and resigned on 4 March 1912. He was affiliated to the Free Democratic Party.
While in office he held the following departments:
- Department of Finance (1900)
- Department of Justice and Police (1901)
- Department of Posts and Railways (1902)
- Department of Finance (1903)
- Political Department as President of the Confederation (1904)
- Department of Finance (1905 - 1909)
- Political Department as President of the Confederation (1910)
- Department of Finance (1911)
- Department of Posts and Railways (1912)
"Quai Robert-Comtesse" in Neuchâtel and "Rue Robert-Comtesse" in Cernier are named after Comtesse.
Famous quotes containing the word robert:
“Of the wheel as it rolls unrelentingly over
A cow plodding through car-traffic on a street in Iasi,
And over the haunts of Robert Pinsky’s mother and father
And wife and children and his sweet self”
—Robert Pinsky (b. 1940)