Maeda Toshisada

Viscount Toshisada Maeda (前田 利定, Maeda Toshisada; 10 December 1874 – 2 October 1944) was a Japanese politician who was Minister of Communications and Minister of Agriculture and Commerce in the pre-war Empire of Japan.

Viscount Toshisada Maeda
前田 利定
Born	(1874-12-10)December 10, 1874 Tokyo, Japan
Died	October 2, 1944(1944-10-02) (aged 69) Tokyo, Japan
Nationality	Japanese
Occupation(s)	politician, cabinet minister

In this Japanese name, the surname is Maeda.

Biography

Toshisada Maeda was born in Tokyo, as the eldest son of Maeda Toshiaki, the final daimyō of Nanokaichi Domain in Kōzuke Province, and inherited his father’s kazoku peerage title of shishaku (viscount). His brother, Toshinari, was a general in the Imperial Japanese Army.

Toshisada Maeda was a graduate of Tokyo Imperial University. He served briefly in the infantry during the First Sino-Japanese War in 1894, and afterwards assumed his family’s seat in the House of Peers of the Diet of Japan. In 1922, he was appointed Minister of Communications in the cabinet of Katō Tomosaburō. He subsequently served in the cabinet of Prime Minister Kiyoura Keigo as Minister of Agriculture and Commerce. He retired from public life in January 1944, and died in October of the same year. He was posthumously awarded the Order of the Sacred Treasures, 1st class.

Maeda studied poetry under Sasaki Nobutsuna. His daughter married post-war Foreign Minister Katsuo Okazaki.

Family tree

Matsushita Uemon

Yasuda Koichiro

Toku Eda

Mastsushita Kusunoki

Hirata Tosuke

Maeda Toshiaki

Mitsui Takamine

Tetsujiro Nakao

Yasue

Jun Iue

Yurou Iue

Toshio Iue

Mumeno

Konosuke Matsushita

Hirata Shodo

Shizuko

Maeda Toshisada

Keiko

Mitsui Hachirōemon

Satoshi Iue

Matsushita Sachiko

Masaharu Matsushita

Hirata Katsumi

Nobuko

Iue Toshimasa

Hiro Matsushita

Masayuki Matsushita (松下正幸

Atsuko

Political offices
Preceded by Okano Keijirō	Minister of Agriculture & Commerce Jan 1924 – Jun 1924	Succeeded by Takahashi Korekiyo
Preceded by Noda Utarō	Communications Minister Jun 1922 – Sept 1923	Succeeded by Inukai Tsuyoshi