Marc Jacquet

Marc Constant Charles Jacquet (born February 17, 1913 in Mercy-le-Bas , Département Meurthe-et-Moselle , † April 18, 1983 in Paris ) was a French politician who was both a member of the National Assembly and the Senate between 1953 and 1954 State Secretary to the Prime Minister and later Minister for Public Works and Transport from 1962 to 1966.

Life

World War II and member of the National Assembly

After attending the high school in Nancy, Jacquet began studying law at the University of Paris , which he continued at the Christian Albrechts University in Kiel . He earned a doctorate in law and was admitted to the bar before he was called up for military service in 1939 after the start of the Second World War . After the Armistice of Compiègne on June 22, 1940 , he joined the Resistance movement and founded the Hector network . At the same time he fought for the Forces françaises libres (FFL) and was captain of their air forces at the end of the war .

In the elections of June 2, 1946, Jacquet stood as a candidate for the rallying movement of the republican left RGR (Rassemblement des gauches républicaines) by Philippe Kieffer in the Calvados department , but with 14,099 out of 180,243 votes came in last on this list. In 1947 he joined the RPF ( Rassemblement du peuple français ) founded by Charles de Gaulle , and was initially its general secretary in the Paris region and from 1949 general delegate of the RPF for agriculture. On June 17, 1951 he was elected for the first time as a member of the National Assembly as the top candidate of the RPF in the Seine-et-Marne department . The RPF's list received 54,316 out of 200,464 and Jacquet was elected as the only candidate on the list in the Seine-et-Marne department to be a member of the National Assembly. At the same time he became a member of the General Council of the Canton of Melun-Sud in 1951 and was a member of it until 1958. During his parliamentary membership he was a member of the Committees for Finance, Families and National Defense and in 1952 also became a member of the Joint Assembly of the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC). He was also Mayor of Barbizon between 1953 and 1971 .

State Secretary and Minister

On June 28, 1953, Jacquet was appointed State Secretary to the Prime Minister for Relations with the Associated States ( Secrétaire d'Etat à la Présidence du Conseil chargé des relations avec les Etats associés ) by Prime Minister Joseph Laniel and held this post until May 30 1954. In 1955 he became a member of the ECSC Commission for the Coordination of Atomic Energy and Nuclear Research and between 1955 and 1959 he was also President of the New Society for the Construction Industry ( Société nouvelle pour l'industrie du bâtiment ) . On January 2, 1956 and November 30, 1958, he was re-elected as a member of the National Assembly in the first constituency of the Seine-et-Marne department and was a member of this until his electoral defeat on March 11, 1973. In 1961 he also became the first Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Paris Districts.

Was Jacquet next to Raymond Triboulet , Gaston Palewski and Christian Fouchet one of the few cabinet members of the Fourth Republic , which is also in a government of the Fifth Republic was appointed when he on 28 November 1962 by Prime Minister Georges Pompidou to the Minister of Public Works and Transport (Ministre des Travaux publics et des Transports) was appointed to the latter's second cabinet , to which he was a member until January 8, 1966. During this time, on July 19, 1965, the opening ceremony of the Mont Blanc Tunnel took place . In 1963 he also became a member of the General Council of the Canton of Melun-Sud, to which he was a member until 1979. In 1969 he succeeded Henri Rey as chairman of the Union for Defense of the Republic UDR ( Union pour la défense de la République ) in the National Assembly. In 1971 he also took over the post of mayor of Melun and held it until his death. He was also President of the National Federation of the Fertilizer Industry FNIE ( Fédération nationale des industries des engrais ) between 1971 and 1978 .

senator

In June 1977 he became a member of the central committee of the collection movement for the republic RPR ( Rassemblement pour la République ) founded by Jacques Chirac on December 5, 1976 . On September 25, 1977 Jacquet, who had also been a member of the Île-de-France regional council since June 1976 , became a member of the Senate , of which he was a member until his death on April 18, 1983. During his tenure in the Senate, he served as Vice-President of the Committee on Constitutional Law, Legislation, Suffrage, Legislation and General Administration ( Commission des lois constitutionnelles, de législation, du suffrage universel, du Règlement et d'administration générale ) from October to December 1977 and since December 1977 as a member of the Committee on Finance, Budgetary Control and Economic Accounts of the Republic ( Commission des finances, du contrôle budgétaire et des comptes économiques de la Nation ) and as successor to Pierre Carous between October 1978 and October 1981 as chairman of the RPR group. In November 1978 he was appointed a member of the National Council for Higher Education and Research CNESER ( Conseil national de l'enseignement supérieur et de la recherche ) . In October 1981 he became honorary president of the RPR group in the Senate.

Web links

• Entry on the homepage of the National Assembly
• Entry on the Senate homepage
• French Ministeries (rulers.org)