Daniel Mayer

Daniel Raphaël Mayer was a French politician and a member of the French Section of the Workers' International and president of the Ligue des droits de l'homme from 1958 to 1975. He founded the Comité d'Action Socialiste in 1941 and was a member of the Brutus Network, a Resistant Socialist group. Mayer also supported the Libération-sud resistance movement headed by Emmanuel d'Astier de la Vigerie.
He was also President of Constitutional Council from 1983 to 1986, and Minister of Labour from 1946 to 1949. Mayer was a Member of Parliament for the Seine from 1945 to 1958.