Preceded by Joseph Tournal Nationality French | Succeeded by Joseph Tournal Political party Republican Union | |
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Born 23 March 1816Routier, France ( 1816-03-23 ) Died 26 May 1893, Routier, Aude, France | ||
Lazare Escarguel (1816-1893) was a French politician and newspaper editor.
Biography
Elected as a councillor in Perpignan in 1865, Lazare Escarguel becomes mayor of that city in 1870. The following year, he is elected as a member of the National Assembly for Pyrénées-Orientales, and is reelected in 1876, 1877 (against Colonel Falcon with 13 235 votes against 8 276) and in 1881. Escarguel is then elected as a senator for Pyrénées-Orientales from 1882 to 1891. He finally retires in his birth town where he dies in 1893 of apoplexy.
Lazare Escarguel is also a founding member of the newspaper L'Indépendant for its second start in 1868.
References
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