Henri Elby (22 November 1918 – 31 July 1986) was a French politician who represented

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 ...

in the

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from 1983 to 1986. Elby was the son of Henri Elby and the grandson 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 ...

. He was elected to the Senate in 1983 and sat in the Union of Republicans and Independents (UREI) group.ELBY, Henri, Ancien sénateur du Pas-de-Calais
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(Retrieved 25 April 2017). He was a member of the Committee on Economic Affairs. He died in office in 1986. He was a knight of the

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1918 births 1986 deaths 20th-century French politicians Knights of the Ordre national du Mérite French senators of the Fifth Republic Senators of Pas-de-Calais {{PasdeCalais-politician-stub