Henri Rochereau

Henri Rochereau (25 March 1908 – 25 January 1999) was a French politician and European Commissioner.

Henri Rochereau
Rochereau in 1968
European Commissioner for Overseas Development
In office 9 January 1962 – 30 June 1970
President	Walter Hallstein Jean Rey
Preceded by	Robert Lemaignen
Succeeded by	Jean-François Deniau (External Relations and Development Aid)
Minister of Agriculture
In office 27 May 1959 – 24 August 1961
Prime Minister	Michel Debré
Preceded by	Roger Houdet
Succeeded by	Edgard Pisani
Personal details
Born	(1908-03-25)25 March 1908 Chantonnay, France
Died	25 January 1999(1999-01-25) (aged 90) Vendée, France

Henri was the son of Victor Rochereau, a National Assembly of France député (deputy) for the Vendée 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 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 canton of Les Essarts
• From May 1959 to August 1961 Minister for Agriculture in the government of Michel Debré
• From 1962 to 1970 he was 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^[1]