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.	Secretary General	Took office	Left office	Time in office	Country
1	Drummond, EricSir Eric Drummond (1876–1951)	1 August 1920	2 July 1933	12 years, 336 days	United Kingdom
2	Avenol, JosephJoseph Avenol (1879–1952)	3 July 1933	31 August 1940	7 years, 59 days	France
3	Lester, SeánSeán Lester (1888–1959)	31 August 1940	18 April 1946	5 years, 230 days	Ireland

Under Secretaries General

Nation	Name	Term
Italy	Giacomo Paulucci di Calboli	1927–1932
United Kingdom	Francis Paul Walters

Presidents of the Assembly

Nation	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
Yugoslavia	Momčilo Ninčić	1926–1927
Uruguay	Alberto Guani	1927–1928
Denmark	Herluf Zahle	1928–1929
El Salvador	José 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 Nájera	1934–1935
Czechoslovakia	Edvard Beneš	1935–1936
Argentina	Carlos Saavedra Lamas	1936–1937
Turkey	Tevfik Rüştü Aras	1937–1937
British India	Sir Sultan Muhammed Shah, Aga Khan III	1937–1938
Ireland	Éamon de Valera	1938–1939
Norway	C. J. Hambro	1939–1946

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

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