Henri Rochereau (25 March 1908, in Chantonnay,

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) was a French politician and European Commissioner. Henri was the son of Victor Rochereau, a National Assembly of France ''député'' (deputy) for the

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department (1914–1942). Henri worked as a solicitors clerk and later in an exporting business. In the

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, he supported the right-wing National Front candidate

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Offices

* From 1949 to 1959 he was a member of the

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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

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* From 1962 to 1970 he was Overseas Development Commissioner in the second

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, and from 1967, in the

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* From 1970 to 1986 he was President of the association of Large French PortsAssociation for the development of the French ports

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