Jules Roguin

Jules Roguin (born September 17, 1823 in Yverdon-les-Bains , † October 6, 1908 in Plainpalais , entitled to live in Yverdon-les-Bains) was a Swiss politician .

biography

Roguin studied law at the Universities of Lausanne and Heidelberg . He was admitted to the bar in 1849 .

Roguin held his first political office from 1852 to 1862 as the liberal Grand Councilor of the Canton of Vaud . Then in 1862 he was elected to the State Council of the Canton of Vaud , where he headed the Department of Finance. He was a member of the government until 1866 and was re-elected to the Grand Council in the same year. He stayed there until 1874 and presided over the parliament in 1869. From 1870 to 1874 he was mayor of Yverdon-les-Bains and from 1863 to 1875 he was on the Council of States , which he chaired in 1864 and 1872 as President of the Council of States .

In 1867 Roguin ran unsuccessfully as a Federal Councilor . From 1874 to 1890 he was a federal judge and then from 1890 to 1905 Associate Professor of Public Law at the University of Geneva . He was also a member of the board of directors of the Rentenanstalt , from 1861 to 1872 on the board of directors of the Waadtländer Kantonalbank and from 1882 to 1892 on the board of the Waadtländer Industry and Trade Association.

Furthermore, Roguin was a member of the Zofingia . In the Swiss Army he was a lieutenant colonel in the infantry .

Web links

• Olivier Meuwly: Roguin, Jules. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Jean-Pierre Chuard, Oliver Meuwly: Victor Luffy . In: Urs Altermatt (Ed.): Das Bundesratslexikon . NZZ Libro , Zurich 2019, ISBN 978-3-03810-218-2 , p. 127 .