Henri Rochereau

{{Short description|French politician (1908–1999)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=February 2022}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = Henri Rochereau | image = Henri Rochereau (1968).jpg | office = [[List of European Commission portfolios#Development|European Commissioner for Overseas Development]] | president = [[Walter Hallstein]]<br />[[Jean Rey (politician)|Jean Rey]] | term_start = 9 January 1962 | term_end = 30 June 1970 | predecessor = [[Robert Lemaignen]] | successor = [[Jean-François Deniau]] {{small|([[European Commissioner for External Relations|External Relations]] and Development Aid)}} | office1 = [[Ministry of Agriculture (France)|Minister of Agriculture]] | prime_minister1 = [[Michel Debré]] | term_start1 = 27 May 1959 | term_end1 = 24 August 1961 | predecessor1 = [[Roger Houdet]] | successor1 = [[Edgard Pisani]] | birth_date = {{birth date|1908|3|25|df=y}} | birth_place = [[Chantonnay]], [[French Third Republic|France]] | death_date = {{death date and age|1999|1|25|1908|3|25|df=y}} | death_place = [[Vendée]], [[France]] | caption = Rochereau in 1968 }} '''Henri Rochereau''' (25 March 1908 – 25 January 1999) was a French politician and [[European Commissioner]].

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

In the [[1988 French presidential election]], he supported the right-wing [[National Front (France)|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 [[Cantons of France|canton]] of [[Les Essarts, Vendée|Les Essarts]] * From May 1959 to August 1961 [[Minister of Agriculture (France)|Minister for Agriculture]] in the government of [[Michel Debré]] * From 1962 to 1970 he was [[European Commissioner for Development & Humanitarian Aid|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<ref>[http://www.port.fr/proadp/index.html Association for the development of the French ports] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070131035001/http://www.port.fr/proadp/index.html |date=31 January 2007 }}</ref>

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{{s-start}} {{s-off}} {{s-bef|before=[[Roger Houdet]]}} {{s-ttl|title=[[Ministry of Agriculture (France)|Minister of Agriculture]]|years=1969–1961}} {{s-aft|after=[[Edgard Pisani]]}} |- {{s-bef|before=[[Robert Marjolin]]}} {{s-ttl|rows=2|title=[[List of European Commissioners by nationality#France|French European Commissioner]]|years=1962–1970|alongside=[[Robert Marjolin]], [[Raymond Barre]]}} {{s-aft|after=[[Raymond Barre]]}} |- {{s-bef|rows=2|before=[[Robert Lemaignen]]}} {{s-aft|rows=2|after=[[Jean-François Deniau]]|as=European Commissioner for [[European Commissioner for External Relations|External Relations]] and Development Aid}} |- {{s-ttl|title=[[List of European Commission portfolios#Development|European Commissioner for Overseas Development]]|years=1962–1970}} {{s-end}}

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