Pierre Edmond Teisserenc de Bort

Pierre Edmond Teisserenc de Bort (17 September 1814 at Châteauroux – 29 July 1892 in Paris), was a French writer and politician.

He entered the Senate in 1876, and was minister of agriculture in the Dufaure-Ricard cabinet of that year, retaining his portfolio in the Jules Simon ministry which fell on 16 May 1877.

In 1878, when he joined the new Dufaure cabinet, he opened the Paris exhibition of agriculture and manufactures, the original suggestion of which had been made by him during his 1876 ministry.

Two years later he re-entered the Senate, where he did good service to the cause of "Republican Defence" during the Boulangist agitation.

[1] His works consist of discussions of railway policy from the technical and economic side.