Alexandre Thomas (politician)

Alexandre Thomas (born January 2, 1913 in Louargat , Département Côtes-du-Nord , † May 21, 1990 in Moustéru , Département Côtes-d'Armor ) was a French politician of the SFIO . From 1951 to 1955 he was a member of the National Assembly .

Life and career

As a young man, Thomas settled in Moustéru near Guingamp , where the father of two worked as a farmer. In 1939 he was drafted into the army at the beginning of World War II and took part in the fighting in the role of a non-commissioned officer . He was captured, but was able to escape from it. During the liberation of France from German occupation in 1944, he was involved in the supply of French partisans. At the same time as the liberation of the country, he entered the political arena and was elected mayor of his home municipality Moustéru on May 13, 1945 as a member of the socialist party SFIO. He then expanded his political and social activities by being active for various trade union groups. His focus was on agricultural issues. He was also responsible at the local level for the Crédit Agricole bank and headed a reinsurance department at the Côtes-du-Nord department.

In the parliamentary elections in 1951 he ran for the Socialists as second behind Antoine Mazier, who had previously been represented in the National Assembly, and thanks to an electoral alliance, he made it into parliament, although his list did not exceed 13.7% of the votes. In his role as a Member of Parliament, he was a member of the Commission for Agricultural Affairs and was primarily devoted to this area of ​​responsibility. Also in 1951 he took part in the election to the General Council of the Côtes-du-Nord, but failed because of the PCF candidate ; In 1958 he could not win again. In December 1955, his mandate as a member of parliament ended and he applied for its continuation in the January 1956 elections, but was not re-elected as second on the list, despite an increase to 16.4% of the vote. In 1955, 1959 and 1962 he also unsuccessfully applied for a seat in the Senate . After his former colleague Antoine Mazier left the party, Thomas succeeded him in September 1958 as the departmental secretary of the socialists. In the same year he tried to return to the National Assembly, but due to the changed electoral law he had to assert himself in a constituency and with 22.7% in the second round of voting was clearly behind the Gaullist candidate, who achieved 46.5% . One reason for this was that a communist was another leftist who could be elected. In 1962 he took part again, was scheduled to stand in for a candidate in 1967 and ran for the last time in 1968 without making it back to parliament.

Individual evidence

1. ^ The Département Côtes-d'Armor emerged in 1990 as a result of a renaming from the Département Côtes-du-Nord
2. ↑ Base de données historique des anciens députés , assemblee-nationale.fr