Jean Goudoux

Jean Goudoux (born July 23, 1910 in Monceaux-sur-Dordogne , † September 15, 1963 in Brive-la-Gaillarde ) was a French politician. From 1945 to 1958 he was a member of the National Assembly .

After graduating from school, Goudoux worked as a construction worker in Aurillac , where he joined the radical trade union CGTU . On his professional path he came to Brive-la-Gardaille in 1929, where he became secretary of the construction union in 1938. A year later he became chairman of the trade union federation in the Corrèze department .

His political career began in 1933 when he entered the Parti communiste français . In 1936 he stood unsuccessfully for this in the parliamentary elections and was elected chairman of the communists in Brive-la-Gaillarde in the same year. With the outbreak of the Second World War in 1939 he was drafted. He was arrested in December of the same year for his activities for the communists. He was sentenced to five years in prison and in January 1941, after the occupation of France by Germany, deported to the Algerian Ech Cheliff . There he was liberated by Allied troops in December 1943. In 1945 he was elected chairman of his party in the Corrèze department and was able to enter the constituent national assembly in the same year. In the elections for the second constituent national assembly in June 1946 he was re-elected as well as in the first regular elections in October 1946. He was confirmed as a member of parliament in 1951 and 1956. In 1958 he finally failed in re-election and in 1962 he was unable to return to parliament. From then on, he limited himself to his work as a member of the General Council of the Corrèze department, to which he had belonged since 1945. From 1961 he was also head of the communist regional newspaper Le Travailleur du Corrèze . Goudoux died in 1963 at the age of 53.

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1. ↑ Base de données historique des anciens députés , assemblee-nationale.fr