Henri Rochereau

Henri Rochereau
European Commissioner for Overseas Development
In office 9 January 1962 – 30 June 1970
President	Walter Hallstein Jean Rey
Preceded by	Robert Lemaignen
Succeeded by	Jean-François Deniau (External Relations and Development Aid)
Minister of Agriculture
In office 27 May 1959 – 24 August 1961
Prime Minister	Michel Debré
Preceded by	Roger Houdet
Succeeded by	Edgard Pisani
Personal details
Born	25 March 1908 Chantonnay, France
Died	25 January 1999 (aged 90) Vendée, France

Henri Rochereau (25 March 1908, Chantonnay, Vendée – 25 January 1999, Paris) was a French politician and European Commissioner.

Henri was the son of Victor Rochereau, a National Assembly of France député (deputy) for the Vendée department (1914–1942). Henri worked as a solicitors clerk and later in an exporting business.

In the French presidential election, 1988, he supported the right-wing National Front candidate Jean-Marie Le Pen.

Offices

• From 1949 to 1959 he was a member of the Senate of France for the Vendée department and a council leader for the canton of Les Essarts
• From May 1959 to August 1961 Minister for Agriculture in the government of Michel Debré
• From 1962 to 1970 he was Overseas Development Commissioner in the second Hallstein Commission, and from 1967, in the Rey Commission
• From 1970 to 1986 he was President of the association of Large French Ports^[1]

Notes

1. Association for the development of the French ports