# Jacques Tauraa

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**Jacques Tauraa** (4 February 1920 – 12 February 1980) was a [French Polynesian](/source/French_Polynesia) politician and [Cabinet Minister](/source/Council_of_Ministers_(French_Polynesia)) who was the longest-serving president of the [Assembly of French Polynesia](/source/Assembly_of_French_Polynesia). He was a member of the [Democratic Rally of the Tahitian People](/source/Democratic_Rally_of_the_Tahitian_People) (RDPT).

Tauraa was born in [Papeete](/source/Papeete) and was a farmer.[1] He was president of the Chamber of Agriculture until 1957, when his membership of the pro-independence [Democratic Rally of the Tahitian People](/source/Democratic_Rally_of_the_Tahitian_People) caused him to lose the position.[1]

He was elected to the [Assembly of French Polynesia](/source/Assembly_of_French_Polynesia) in the [1957 French Polynesian legislative election](/source/1957_French_Polynesian_legislative_election) and appointed Minister of Economic Affairs in the government of [Pouvanaa a Oopa](/source/Pouvanaa_a_Oopa).[1][2] He was a proponent of "yes" (remain part of France, rather than become independent) in the [1958 French Polynesian constitutional referendum](/source/1958_French_Polynesian_constitutional_referendum).[1] He lost his position as a Minister when the French colonial government dissolved Oopa's government following the referendum, but was subsequently elected by the Assembly to the resulting interim government.[3] In May 1959 he was elected president of the Assembly.[1]

Following Oopa's prosecution, conviction and exile for arson he became the leader of the RDPT.[4] He was re-elected in the [1962 election](/source/1962_French_Polynesian_legislative_election) and elected president of the Assembly, a position he held for the next six years.[1] As president of the Assembly, Tauraa opposed the use of French Polynesia as a nuclear test site.[5][6] He also supported an income tax to provide financial independence from France.[7]

Following the dissolution of the RDPT by the colonial authorities, Tauraa joined Teariki's [Here Ai'a](/source/Here_Ai'a).[1] A dispute with Teariki over who the party should back in the [1965 French presidential election](/source/1965_French_presidential_election) saw Tauraa and many of the RDPT's MP's expelled from the party in 1966.[1] In 1967 he founded a new party, the Regrouping of the Tahitian People, to contest the [1967 election](/source/1967_French_Polynesian_legislative_election), but failed to secure re-election.[8]

## Personal life

Tauraa's brother-in-law was [Jacques Drollet](/source/Jacques_Drollet).[9]

## References

1. ["Jacques TAURAA"](http://www.assemblee.pf/pdf/RepresentantDetail/65) (in French). Assemblée de la Polynésie française. Retrieved 17 June 2023.

1. ["Leftist Party Takes Over in French Polynesia"](https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-320274056/view?partId=nla.obj-320476837#page/n22/mode/1up). *Pacific Islands Monthly*. Vol. XXVIII, no. 9. 1 April 1958. p. 21. Retrieved 17 June 2023. – via National Library of Australia.

1. ["1957-1959 : La première autonomie interne: Composition des conseils de gouvernement"](http://www.assemblee.pf/histoire?id=114) (in French). Assemblée de la Polynésie française. Retrieved 17 June 2023.

1. ["The Complicated Politics of Polynesia"](https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-324419870/view?partId=nla.obj-324461340#page/n10/mode/1up). *Pacific Islands Monthly*. Vol. XXXIII, no. 6. 1 January 1963. p. 9. Retrieved 17 June 2023. – via National Library of Australia.

1. ["Le premier ministre s'efforce d'apaiser les inquiétudes suscitées par l'installation du centre d'essais nucléaires du Pacifique"](https://www.lemonde.fr/archives/article/1964/07/28/le-premier-ministre-s-efforce-d-apaiser-les-inquietudes-suscitees-par-l-installation-du-centre-d-essais-nucleaires-du-pacifique_3141906_1819218.html) (in French). Le Monde. 27 July 1964. Retrieved 17 June 2023.

1. ["TAHITIANS UNHAPPY AT BOMB TESTS"](https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-325241753/view?sectionId=nla.obj-333903410). *Pacific Islands Monthly*. Vol. 35, no. 9. 1 September 1964. p. 57. Retrieved 17 June 2023. – via National Library of Australia.

1. ["TAHITIANS STAND FIRM AGAINST INCOME TAX PLAN"](https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-325373711/view?sectionId=nla.obj-334025211). *Pacific Islands Monthly*. Vol. 36, no. 2. 1 February 1965. pp. 29–30. Retrieved 17 June 2023. – via National Library of Australia.

1. ["STRONG VOTE FOR AUTONOMY IN FRENCH POLYNESIA"](https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-326775210/view?sectionId=nla.obj-335545642). *Pacific Islands Monthly*. Vol. 38, no. 10. 1 October 1967. p. 25. Retrieved 17 June 2023. – via National Library of Australia.

1. *The French Pacific Islands: French Polynesia and New Caledonia*, by Virginia Thompson and Richard Adloff; published 1971 by [University of California Press](/source/University_of_California_Press); ISBN 0-520-01843-5; p. 62

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