Jean Proriol

{{Short description|French politician (born 1934)}}

Jean Proriol (born 25 November 1934) is a French politician of the Union for a Popular Movement (UMP), currently serving in the National Assembly from the second district of Haute-Loire[http://www.assemblee-nationale.fr/13/tribun/fiches_id/2480.asp CV at National Assembly website] {{in lang|fr}}. (Le Puy-Brioude).[http://www.i-see.fr/jeanproriol2007/index.php?page=biographie Biography at Proriol website] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070929040914/http://www.i-see.fr/jeanproriol2007/index.php?page=biographie |date=2007-09-29 }} {{in lang|fr}}.

Proriol was born in Beauzac, Haute-Loire. He has been the Mayor of Beauzac since October 1962, and has been President of the Departmental Association of Mayors of Haute-Loire since 1979. He also became a member of the General Council of Haute-Loire in October 1962, where he served until March 1992; from March 1985 to March 1992, he was Vice-President of the General Council.

From October 1974 to March 1978, Proriol was a member of the French Senatefrom Haute-Loire.[http://www.senat.fr/senfic/proriol_jean000639.html Senate page on Proriol] {{in lang|fr}}. In the March 1978 legislative election, he was elected to the National Assembly, and he has been re-elected in every election since then. He was Secretary of the National Assembly from April 1993 to April 1997 and from June 2002 to June 2007.

He has been a member of the Regional Council of Auvergne since March 1992. He was previously Vice-President of the Regional Council from March 1986 to June 1988, and he was First Vice-President in charge of economic development from March 1992 to March 2004.