Alexis de Tocqueville
1850 portrait by Theodore Chasseriau
Minister of Foreign Affairs
In office 2 June 1849 ? 30 October 1849
Prime Minister	Odilon Barrot
Preceded by	Edouard Drouyn de Lhuys
Succeeded by	Alphonse de Rayneval
Member of the National Assembly for Manche
In office 25 April 1848 ? 3 December 1851
Preceded by	Leonor-Joseph Havin
Succeeded by	Herve de Kergorlay
Constituency	Sainte-Mere-Eglise
Member of the Chamber of Deputies for Manche
In office 7 March 1839 ? 23 April 1848
Preceded by	Jules Polydore Le Marois
Succeeded by	Gabriel-Joseph Laumondais
Constituency	Valognes
Personal details
Born	Alexis Charles Henri Clerel de Tocqueville ( 1805-07-29 ) 29 July 1805 Paris , French Empire
Died	16 April 1859 (1859-04-16) (aged 53) Cannes , French Empire
Cause of death	Tuberculosis
Political party	Movement Party [1] [2] (1839?1848) Party of Order (1848?1851)
Spouse(s)	Mary Mottley ( m.  1835; died 1859)
Alma mater	University of Paris
Profession	Historian , magistrate , jurist
Philosophy career
Notable work	Democracy in America (1835) The Old Regime and the Revolution (1856)
Era	19th-century philosophy
Region	Western philosophy
School	Liberal conservatism [3]
Main interests	History , political philosophy , sociology
Notable ideas	Voluntary association , mutual liberty , soft despotism
Influences Montesquieu Voltaire Rousseau Malesherbes Pascal
Influenced Max Weber John Stuart Mill Friedrich Hayek Camillo Benso of Cavour Emmanuel Todd Raymond Aron Pierre Manent Harvey Mansfield Claude Lefort

Alexis Charles-Henri-Maurice Clerel, Viscount de Tocqueville ( / ? t o? k v ? l , ? t ? k -/ ; ^[4] French:  [al?gzi d? t?kvil] ; 29 July 1805 – 16 April 1859) was a French diplomat , political scientist and historian . He was best known for his works Democracy in America (appearing in two volumes, 1835 and 1840) and The Old Regime and the Revolution (1856).

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