Pierre Souquès

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Pierre Souquès (born January 2, 1910 in Paris , † April 10, 2007 ibid) was a French politician. From 1951 to 1958 he was a member of the National Assembly .

Early life

Souquès graduated from high school in 1928 and joined the Parti radical that same year . Shortly afterwards he started working in the Ministry of Agriculture. He also completed a law degree, which he completed in 1933. After his military service, he returned to the ministry. From 1939 he was secretary in the administrative service of the Senate . With the outbreak of the Second World War , he was drafted and captured by the Wehrmacht in June 1940 . However, he managed to escape and went back to working for the Senate, which had moved its seat to Vichy . In July 1941 he received his doctorate in law. After the liberation he worked from 1945 in the administration of the constituent national assembly and was also secretary of the faction of the Parti radical. In 1946 he moved to the Council of the Republic , the then Senate. In March 1947 he became chief adviser to the President of the Council, Gaston Monnerville .

Political career

In 1948 he rose to the national office of the Parti radical. A little later he decided to become politically active himself and ran in the parliamentary elections in 1951 in the Indre-et-Loire department . He succeeded in entering parliament, whose secretary he was from 1951 to 1954. In the 1956 elections he was re-elected as a member of parliament. In May 1958 he voted against the special powers for Charles de Gaulle , which ushered in the Fifth Republic . In the resulting elections in the same year, he did not run again. He returned to the Senate after leaving Parliament. In 1962 he decided to run again in the parliamentary elections, but it was unsuccessful. Then he ended his political career. Souquès was an officer of the Legion of Honor and holder of the Médaille de la Résistance and the Médaille des évadés . He died in Paris in 2007.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Base de données historique des anciens députés , assemblee-nationale.fr
personal data
SURNAME Souquès, Pierre
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French politician, member of the National Assembly
DATE OF BIRTH January 2, 1910
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris , France
DATE OF DEATH April 10, 2007
Place of death Paris , France