Yorinaga Matsudaira
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Yorinaga Matsudaira | |
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松平 頼寿 | |
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| President of the House of Peers | |
| In office 19 June 1937 – 13 September 1944 | |
| Monarch | Hirohito |
| Vice President | Yukitada Sasaki |
| Preceded by | Fumimaro Konoe |
| Succeeded by | Kuniyuki Tokugawa |
| Vice President of the House of Peers | |
| In office 9 June 1933 – 19 June 1937 | |
| President | Fumimaro Konoe |
| Preceded by | Fumimaro Konoe |
| Succeeded by | Yukitada Sasaki |
| Member of the House of Peers | |
| In office 8 August 1914 – 13 September 1944 | |
| In office 28 February 1908 – 9 July 1911 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 10 December 1874 |
| Died | 13 September 1944 (aged 69) Karuizawa, Nagano, Japan |
| Resting place | Yanaka Cemetery |
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Count Yorinaga Matsudaira (松平 頼寿, Matsudaira Yorinaga; 10 December 1874 – 13 September 1944) was a Japanese political figure of the late Meiji through early Shōwa periods, and served as President of the House of Peers in the Diet of Japan.
Matsudaira attended the Gakushūin Peer's School, and with the sponsorship of Ōkuma Shigenobu, graduated from the law school of Waseda University. district of Tokyo, as the eldest son of Tokugawa Iesato.
Political career
In 1908 he became a member of the House of Peers, and continued to serve as a member every year (except for a hiatus between 1911 and 1914) until his death.
In 1933, he was made Vice-President of the House of Peers, breaking with the precedent that only men with the rank of princes or marquis could service in the highest level positions. Four years later, when Fumimaro Konoe became Prime Minister of Japan, Yorinaga Matsudaira became the President of the House of Peers. He died while in office, and was posthumously awarded the Order of the Rising Sun, 1st class with Paulownia Flowers. His grave is at the Yanaka Cemetery in Tokyo. His nephew Yorihiro Matsudaira succeeded him in his peerage.
