Pierre-Isaac Joly

Pierre-Isaac Joly (born December 15, 1818 in Moudon ; † December 10, 1901 there , reformed , entitled to live in Moudon and Granges-près-Marnand ) was a Swiss politician (FDP liberal) .

biography

Pierre-Isaac Joly was born on December 15, 1818 in Moudon as the son of the innkeeper in Moudon Pierre-Isaac Joly senior and Jeanne-Elisabeth born Gindre. Joly completed a theology and literature studies at the Lausanne Academy .

As a result, he was employed as a tutor in Russia , before he was appointed on his return as a justice of the peace and from 1845 to 1862 as prefect of the Moudon district . He also sat between 1849 and 1851 for the radical fraction in the Vaudois Grand Council . In 1862 Joly was elected to the State Council, in which he was represented until 1866. There he first headed the Department of the Interior, then the Department of Education.

Finally, he took a seat on the National Council for the canton from 1872 to 1878 . Most recently, Joly was a member of the management team from 1887, then a member of the board of directors of the Moudon district savings fund, of which he was president from 1900. Pierre-Isaac Joly's particular commitment was in the area of ​​charity.

Pierre-Isaac Joly married Louise-Caroline-Henriette, the daughter of Jacques Bourgeois, and Suzanne-Anne-Marie, the daughter of Jean-Pierre Bourgeois. He died on December 10, 1901, five days before he was 83 years old in Moudon.

literature

• Erich Gruner , Karl Frei: The Swiss Federal Assembly 1848–1920. Francke, Bern 1966, page 819

Web links

• Patrick de Leonardis: Joly, Pierre-Isaac. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .