Henri Rochereau

Henri Rochereau (March 25 1908 in Chantonnay, Pays de la Loire – January 25 1999 Paris) was a French politician and European Commissioner.

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 [ [http://www.port.fr/proadp/index.html Association for the development of the French ports] ]

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