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
| No. | Portrait | Secretary General | Took office | Left office | Time in office | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sir Eric Drummond (1876–1951) | 1 August 1920 | 2 July 1933 | 12 years, 336 days |  United Kingdom | |
| 2 | Joseph Avenol (1879–1952) | 3 July 1933 | 31 August 1940 | 7 years, 59 days |  France | |
| 3 | Seán Lester (1888–1959) | 31 August 1940 | 18 April 1946 | 5 years, 230 days |  Ireland |
Deputy secretaries general
| No. | Portrait | Name | Term | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  |
Jean Monnet | 1919–1923 | France
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| 2 |  |
Joseph Avenol | 1923–1932 | France
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| 3 |  |
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Seán Lester | 1937–1940 | Ireland
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| 5 | Francis Paul Walters | 1940-1946 | United Kingdom
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Under secretaries general
| 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 | 1927–1933 |
| Germany |
Ernst Trendelenburg | 1932–1933 |
| United Kingdom |
Francis Paul Walters | 1933–1939 |
 Soviet Union |
Vladimir Sokoline | 1937–1939 |
 Argentina |
Luis Podestá Costa | 1938–1943 |
 Greece |
Thanassis Aghnides | 1939–1942 |
Presidents of the Assembly
| Nation | Portrait | Name | Term |
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| France
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Léon Bourgeois | 1920 |
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Paul Hymans 1st time |
1920–1921 |
 Netherlands
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Herman Adriaan van Karnebeek | 1921–1922 |
 Chile
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Agustín Edwards | 1922–1923 |
 Cuba
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Cosme de la Torriente y Peraza | 1923–1924 |
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Giuseppe Motta | 1924–1925 |
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Raoul Dandurand | 1925–1926 |
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Afonso Costa | 1926 |
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Momčilo Ninčić | 1926–1927 |
 Uruguay
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Alberto Guani | 1927–1928 |
 Denmark
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Herluf Zahle | 1928–1929 |
 El Salvador
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José Gustavo Guerrero | 1929–1930 |
 Kingdom of Romania
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Nicolae Titulescu | 1930–1932 |
| Belgium
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Paul Hymans 2nd time |
1932–1933 |
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Charles Theodore Te Water | 1933–1934 |
 Sweden
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Rickard Sandler | 1934 |
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Francisco Castillo Nájera | 1934–1935 |
 Czechoslovakia
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Edvard Beneš | 1935–1936 |
| Argentina
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Carlos Saavedra Lamas | 1936–1937 |
 Turkey
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Tevfik Rüştü Aras | 1937–1937 |
 British Raj
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Sir Sultan Muhammed Shah, Aga Khan III | 1937–1938 |
| Ireland
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Éamon de Valera | 1938–1939 |
 Norway
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C. J. Hambro | 1939–1946 |
See also
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. ISBN 978-0-09-117040-0.