Henri Rochereau
{{Short description|French politician (1908–1999)}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=February 2022}}
{{Infobox officeholder
| name = Henri Rochereau
| image = Henri Rochereau (1968).jpg
| office = European Commissioner for Overseas Development
| president = Walter Hallstein
Jean Rey
| term_start = 9 January 1962
| term_end = 30 June 1970
| predecessor = Robert Lemaignen
| successor = Jean-François Deniau {{small|(External Relations and Development Aid)}}
| office1 = Minister of Agriculture
| primeminister1 = Michel Debré
| term_start1 = 27 May 1959
| term_end1 = 24 August 1961
| predecessor1 = Roger Houdet
| successor1 = Edgard Pisani
| birth_date = {{birth date|1908|3|25|df=y}}
| birth_place = Chantonnay, France
| death_date = {{death date and age|1999|1|25|1908|3|25|df=y}}
| death_place = Vendée, France
| caption = Rochereau in 1968
}}
Henri Rochereau (25 March 1908 – 25 January 1999) 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 1988 French presidential election, 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] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070131035001/http://www.port.fr/proadp/index.html |date=31 January 2007 }}
Notes
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{{s-bef|before=Roger Houdet}}
{{s-ttl|title=Minister of Agriculture|years=1969–1961}}
{{s-aft|after=Edgard Pisani}}
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{{s-bef|before=Robert Marjolin}}
{{s-ttl|rows=2|title=French European Commissioner|years=1962–1970|alongside=Robert Marjolin, Raymond Barre}}
{{s-aft|after=Raymond Barre}}
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{{s-bef|rows=2|before=Robert Lemaignen}}
{{s-aft|rows=2|after=Jean-François Deniau|as=European Commissioner for External Relations and Development Aid}}
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{{s-ttl|title=European Commissioner for Overseas Development|years=1962–1970}}
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Category:French European commissioners
Category:Ministers of agriculture of France
Category:French senators of the Fourth Republic
Category:European commissioners (1967–1970)
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