Henri Jules Elby (15 July 1894 – 10 December 1974) was a French industrialist and politician who was a

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from 1936 to 1944. He was the second son of

Jules Elby Jules Désiré Elby (25 November 1857 – 2 July 1933) was a French industrialist and Democratic Republican Alliance politician who represented Pas-de-Calais in the Senate between 1923 and 1933. He was also Director-General of the Bruay Mining Co ...

and Mathilde Leroy, and was raised at the

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. He served in the

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during the

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, during which he was wounded. He ended the war as a lieutenant of artillery. He spent most of his career as a company manager, latterly as President of the Chamber of Commerce of

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. He first stood for election to the

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in the

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, running in Montreuil as an Independent Radical candidate, but was beaten by the Radical Party.Jean Jolly, ''Dictionnaire des Parlementaires'', Volume V (1968), p.1617-8. On 8 November 1936 he was the Republican candidate for his father's former

Pas-de-Calais Pas-de-Calais (, " strait of Calais"; pcd, Pas-Calés; also nl, Nauw van Kales) is a department in northern France named after the French designation of the Strait of Dover, which it borders. It has the most communes of all the departments ...

seat in a

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by-election.ELBY, Henri, Ancien sénateur du Pas-de-Calais
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(Retrieved 25 April 2017). After his election he sat with the

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. In 1937 he was appointed a member of the Customs and Mining Commissions, and in 1938 he became a member of the Navy Commission. On 10 July 1940 he voted with the majority in the Senate in favour of drafting a new constitution and granting

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full powers following the

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. After the war, Henri Elby was elected to the Pas-de-Calais General Council to represent the canton of Montreuil-sur-Mer. He participated in the legislative elections of November 1958. His son, also called Henri Elby, was a politician.

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