Émile Poisson (25 May 1905 in
Ouidah
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,
Dahomey
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– 4 June 1999 in
Paris
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), was a politician from
Benin
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who served in the
French Senate
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from 1947 to 1955. He was a
métis
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. Prior to election to the French Senate he had been a schoolmaster.
[Joseph-Roger de Benoist '' Afrique occidentale française de 1944 à 1960'' 1982 Page 77 "Le P. Bertho le laissa à Sourou Migan Apithy, qui fut élu après le retrait de la candidature d'Émile Poisson, à qui avait été promis un siège de sénateur."]
References
page on the French Senate website
Beninese politicians
French Senators of the Fourth Republic
1905 births
1999 deaths
People from Ouidah
Senators of French West Africa
20th-century Beninese politicians
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