Gaston Fourrier

Gaston Eloi Joseph Fourrier (born September 25, 1903 in Boulogne-sur-Mer , † November 7, 1976 in Neuilly-sur-Seine ) was a French sales representative and politician . He was Senator for Niger from 1948 to 1959 .

Life

Gaston Fourrier settled in Niamey in the French colony of Niger in the 1920s , where he worked as a sales representative for the import-export company Personnaz et Gardin . He became a member of the Chamber of Commerce of Dahomey and Niger, whose Niger-West section he chaired several times. In the elections to the General Council on January 5, 1947 , he was elected by the first electoral college to the newly created parliament of the colony of Niger. At that time, elections in Niger were carried out by citizens of France according to a college system. There was no universal suffrage yet . The first electoral college was actually composed of French citizens from metropolitan France in Niger. The second electoral college consisted of other French Union citizens in Niger. Almost at the same time as his election to the General Council of Niger, Fourrier ran as a non-party member of the first electoral college for the office of Senator for Niger in the Council of the Republic , the upper house of the French parliament , but lost to Raoul Streiff .

In the new elections on November 14, 1948, Fourrier finally prevailed as an RPF candidate against Streiff and entered the Council of the Republic as Senator for Niger. There he joined the Action Démocratique et Républicaine faction and in 1951 became a member of the Committees for Supply and for Overseas France . He was unanimously re-elected as Senator on May 18, 1952 and was now a member of the Rassemblement d'Outre-Mer . He was a member of the Press Committee, then the Family Affairs Committee. In 1957, Fourrier proposed a resolution to celebrate the centenary of the Tirailleurs sénégalais on July 21, 1957 . On June 8, 1958, he was re-elected as Senator for Niger. In Niger, Fourrier had joined the ruling Sawaba party. Together with other dissidents, he opposed the line taken by party chairman Djibo Bakary , which stipulated a no at the constitutional referendum in Niger on November 28, 1958, and thus the immediate independence of Niger from France. A few weeks before the vote, Gaston Fourrier founded a splinter party, the Union Franco-Nigérienne , with Issoufou Saïdou Djermakoye and Adamou Mayaki , and demanded Djibo Bakary's resignation as head of government. The referendum ended with a yes and quickly led to Bakary's Sawaba being disempowered. Fourrier's mandate as Senator for Niger ended on July 15, 1959, about a year before Niger's actual independence from France.

Web links

Anciens sénateurs IVème République: Fourrier Gaston . Sénat (French).

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c Anciens sénateurs IVème République: Fourrier Gaston. Sénat , accessed July 2, 2016 (French).
↑ Edmond Séré de Rivières: Histoire du Niger . Berger-Levrault, Paris 1965, p. 270 .
^ Klaas van Walraven: The Yearning for Relief. A History of the Sawaba Movement in Niger . Brill, Leiden 2013, ISBN 978-90-04-24574-7 , pp. 242 .

personal data
SURNAME	Fourrier, Gaston
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Fourrier, Gaston Eloi Joseph (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	French sales representative and politician
DATE OF BIRTH	September 25, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH	Boulogne-sur-Mer
DATE OF DEATH	November 7, 1976
Place of death	Neuilly-sur-Seine

[Sénat_Fourrier-1] Anciens sénateurs IVème République: Fourrier Gaston. Sénat , accessed July 2, 2016 (French).

[2] Edmond Séré de Rivières: Histoire du Niger . Berger-Levrault, Paris 1965, p. 270 .

[3] Klaas van Walraven: The Yearning for Relief. A History of the Sawaba Movement in Niger . Brill, Leiden 2013, ISBN 978-90-04-24574-7 , pp. 242 .