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

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No. Portrait Secretary General Took office Left office Time in office Country
1Drummond, EricSir Eric Drummond
(1876–1951)
1 August 19202 July 193312 years, 336 days  United Kingdom
2Avenol, JosephJoseph Avenol
(1879–1952)
3 July 193331 August 19407 years, 59 days  France
3Lester, SeánSeán Lester
(1888–1959)
31 August 194018 April 19465 years, 230 days  Ireland

Deputy Secretaries General

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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   Italy
4   Seán Lester 1937–1940   Ireland
5 Francis Paul Walters 1940-1946   United Kingdom

Under Secretaries General

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Nation Name Term
  United States Raymond B. Fosdick 1919 (provisional)
  Italy Bernardo Attolico 1919–1920
  Japan Nitobe Inazo 1919–1926
  Italy Dionisio Anzilotti 1920–1921
  Germany Albert Dufour-Feronce 1927–1932
  Italy Giacomo Paulucci di Calboli 1927–1932
  Japan Yotaro Sugimura [jp] 1927–1933
  Germany Ernst Trendelenburg [de] 1932–1933
  United Kingdom Francis Paul Walters 1933–1939
  Soviet Union Vladimir Sokoline 1937–1939
  Argentina Luis Podestá Costa [es] 1938–1943
  Greece Thanassis Aghnides 1939–1942

Presidents of the Assembly

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Nation Portrait 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
  Kingdom of Yugoslavia   Momčilo Ninčić 1926–1927
  Uruguay Alberto Guani 1927–1928
  Denmark   Herluf Zahle 1928–1929
  El Salvador   José Gustavo Guerrero 1929–1930
  Kingdom of Romania   Nicolae Titulescu 1930–1932
  Belgium   Paul Hymans
2nd time
1932–1933
  Union of 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
  British Raj   Sir Sultan Muhammed Shah, Aga Khan III 1937–1938
  Ireland   Éamon de Valera 1938–1939
  Norway   C. J. Hambro 1939–1946

See also

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References

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  • 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. ISBN 978-0-09-117040-0.