See also: Sandoz (homonymy)

Andre Sandoz , born the September 18th 1911 with La Chaux-de-Fonds and deceased the May 16th 2006 in its birthplace, is a politician Suisse.

Lawyer, laid off in right of the University of Neuchâtel, it practices the bar of 1938 with 1940. For this reason, it defends of the Militant S of left implied in the events of the January 25th 1937 (scuffles after the conference of Jean-Marie Musy and died of Doctor Bourquin).

He is chancellor of the city of the Chaux-de-Fonds of 1940 with 1953. From 1953 with 1960, he is member of the Council of State neuchâtelois in load of justice and industry. It chairs the socialist section of Neuchâtel during part of this period. Of return with the Chaux-de-Fonds, it chairs the Town council of 1960 1970. It sits at the National council of 1963 with 1971 and is member of its office. It also forms part of the Grand the Council neuchâtelois (1949 -1953, 1961 - 1981) and chairs the socialist group it twice (1961 - 1967 and 1974 - 1976). It replaces Pierre Graber within the federal commission of the good officess for the Jurassic Question.

Acquired with socialism by the lesson of Andre Philip and Pasteur Paul Pettavel, André Sandoz adheres to the Socialist party in 1936. He put his talents of speaker and lawyer at the service of the Démocratie. He fights within the framework of the Amis of republican Spain . He has in heart to defend of the causes such as the democratization of the legal apparatus, the extension of the rights and individual freedoms, the protection of the tenants and the improvement of the statute of the immigrant workers.

He writes articles under the pseudonyms Huron the or under that of Heraclès of Saint-Yves in the Sentinel.

His Amélie wife shares her convictions.

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