In his political life he was member of the Departmental council, socialist mayor of Toulouse where he initiated several reforms and improvements to the city.

Born in Toulouse on 31 August 1845, Camille Ournac, became a wholesale wine merchant, a miller and then Conseil général of French Departments,[2] Ournac was the first of a succession of radical socialist mayors of Toulouse who founded the labor exchange and set up the first horse-drawn streetcars in the city.

[4] Excerpt from Ournac's Musée Saint-Raymond inaugural speech (translated from French):[8]The creation of this museum is essentially democratic in the highest sense of the word; And it is usefully, in my opinion, to work for the people, to teach him history by the eyes; It is to form his taste, to inculcate in him the love of the beautiful in all its forms, all things which make man better.

The state, which was responsible for half of the renovation costs, and the city, contested the list of artists who would participate in the work.

[2] Ournac joined the French Democratic Left party and intervened on budgetary issues related to agriculture and was also a member of committees on finance, railways, initiative, local interest, and the economic organization of the nation in time of war.