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Henry Lmery was a politician from Martinique who served in the French National Assembly from 19141919 and the French Senate from 19201941. Lmery was briefly Minister of Justice in 1934. During World War II he was Colonial Secretary in the Vichy government for three months in 1940 before being dismissed, probably because the Germans disapproved of his mulatto ancestry.
Henry Lmery was born onDecember 1874 in SaintPierre, Martinique. His family had been settled in the Antillean island of Martinique since the mid17th century. He was a mulatto but was very lightskinned. He was educated at the secondary school in SaintPierre, then in Paris at the Lyce LouisleGrand. After rejecting a career as a teacher, he enrolled at the Sorbonne and then at the Faculty of Law of the University of Paris. Lmery became a lawyer in 1898 and joined the bar of Paris in 1899. In May 1902 his whole family died during the eruption of Mount Pele. He twice married French women.
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