Joseph Marcellin Rulhières

Joseph Marcellin Rulhières (born 1787, Saint-Didier-en-Velay – 1862, Paris) was a French politician.

Life

He was admitted to velites of the Old Guard in 1807, lieutenant in 1809. He served during the Hundred Days. He was at the Siege of Antwerp in 1832 as a field marshal. He was promoted Lieutenant General after the second expedition of Constantine, Algeria in 1837. He was made Peer of France, in 1845. He was Representative of the Loire to the Constituent Assembly of 1848 and the National Legislative Assembly in 1849. He was a Deputy and Minister of the War Department in the Prince-President Napoleon III in 1848.

References

First cabinet of Odilon Barrot (20 December 1848 to 2 June 1849) Under the Presidency of Louis Napoleon President of the Council, Minister of Justice Odilon Barrot Odilon Barrot President of the Council Interior Léon de Maleville Léon Faucher Foreign Affairs: Édouard Drouyn de Lhuys Finance Hippolyte Passy Agriculture and Commerce Jacques Alexandre Bixio Louis Buffet Public Works Léon Faucher Théobald de Lacrosse War Joseph Marcellin Rulhières Navy and Colonies Victor Destutt de Tracy Public Education and Religious Worship Frédéric Alfred Pierre, comte de Falloux

Second cabinet of Odilon Barrot (2 June 1849 to 31 October 1849) Under the Presidency of Louis Napoleon President of the Council, Minister of Justice Odilon Barrot Odilon Barrot President of the Council Interior Jules Armand Dufaure Foreign Affairs: Alexis de Tocqueville Finance Hippolyte Passy Agriculture Victor Lanjuinais Public Works Théobald de Lacrosse War Joseph Marcellin Rulhières Navy and Colonies Victor Destutt de Tracy Public Education and Cults Frédéric Alfred Pierre, comte de Falloux