Jean-François Bettex

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Jean-François Bettex (born March 19, 1816 in Combremont-le-Grand , † March 13, 1887 in Yverdon-les-Bains , resident in Combremont-le-Grand) was a Swiss politician .

biography

Bettex attended school in Lausanne and then studied in Germany . He then worked as a teacher in Bonvillars and from 1840 in Yverdon-les-Bains .

He was substitute judge from 1847 to 1849, judge in 1850 and finally from 1851 to 1870 clerk at the civil court. In the years 1852 to 1862 he also worked at the criminal court of the Yverdon district . He was also deputy justice of the peace of the same district from 1883 to 1887.

In 1847 Bettex was elected to the Grand Council of the Canton of Vaud , a year later to the National Council in the first parliamentary elections . He resigned from both offices in 1851. He belonged to the radical camp.

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