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Preceded by
  
Robert Lemaignen

Role
  
French Politician

Name
  
Henri Rochereau


Preceded by
  
Roger Houdet

Prime Minister
  
Michel Debre

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President
  
Walter HallsteinJean Rey

Born
  
25 March 1908Chantonnay, France (
1908-03-25
)

Died
  
January 25, 1999, Paris, France

Succeeded by
  
Jean-Francois Deniau

Henri Rochereau (25 March 1908, Chantonnay, Vendée – 25 January 1999, Paris) was a French politician and European Commissioner.

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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 French presidential election, 1988, he supported the right-wing National Front candidate Jean-Marie Le Pen.

Offices

  • 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

    • References

    Henri Rochereau Wikipedia
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