Henri Rochereau (25 March 1908 – 25 January 1999) was a French politician and European Commissioner.
Henri Rochereau | |
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.jpg) Rochereau in 1968 | |
| European Commissioner for Overseas Development | |
| In office 9 January 1962 – 30 June 1970 | |
| President | Walter Hallstein Jean Rey |
| Preceded by | Robert Lemaignen |
| Succeeded by | Jean-François Deniau (External Relations and Development Aid) |
| Minister of Agriculture | |
| In office 27 May 1959 – 24 August 1961 | |
| Prime Minister | Michel Debré |
| Preceded by | Roger Houdet |
| Succeeded by | Edgard Pisani |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 25 March 1908 Chantonnay, France |
| Died | 25 January 1999 (aged 90) Vendée, France |
Henri was the son of Victor Rochereau, a National Assembly of France député (deputy) for the Vendée department (1914–1942). Henri worked as a solicitors clerk and later in an exporting business.
In the 1988 French presidential election, he supported the right-wing National Front candidate Jean-Marie Le Pen.
Offices
edit- From 1949 to 1959 he was a member of the Senate of France for the Vendée department and a council leader for the canton of Les Essarts
- From May 1959 to August 1961 Minister for Agriculture in the government of Michel Debré
- From 1962 to 1970 he was Overseas Development Commissioner in the second Hallstein Commission, and from 1967, in the Rey Commission
- From 1970 to 1986 he was President of the association of Large French Ports[1]
Notes
edit- ^ Association for the development of the French ports Archived 31 January 2007 at the Wayback Machine