Leaders of the League of Nations

The leaders of the League of Nations consisted of a Secretary General and a President of the Assembly selected from member states.

Secretaries Generals

•  United Kingdom — Sir James Eric Drummond, 16th Earl of Perth (1920–1933)
•  France — Joseph Avenol (1933–1940)
•  Ireland — Seán Lester (1940–1946)

Presidents of the Assembly

•  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 Augusto da Costa 1926–1926
•  Yugoslavia — Momčilo Ninčić 1926–1927
•  Uruguay — Alberto Guani 1927–1928
•  Denmark — Herluf Zahle 1928–1929
•  El Salvador — Jose Gustavo Guerrero 1929–1930
•  Romania — Nicolae Titulescu 1930–1932
•  Belgium — Paul Hymans (2nd time) 1932–1933
•  South Africa — Charles Theodore Te Water 1933–1934
•  Sweden — Rickard Sandler 1934
•  Mexico — Francisco Castillo Najera 1934–1935
•  Czechoslovakia — Edvard Beneš 1935–1936
•  Argentina — Carlos Saavedra Lamas 1936–1937
•  Turkey — Tevfik Rustu Aras 1937–1937
•  British Indian Empire — Sir Muhammad Shah Aga Khan 1937–1938
•  Ireland — Éamon de Valera 1938–1939
•  Norway — Carl Joachim Hambro 1939–1946

See also

• League of Nations

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