François Bénard is a French politician, born on January 28th, 1903 with Feuquières (Oise), deceased on March 1st, 1978 in Paris (17th), appointed of the Oise of 1956 to 1978.

Biography

After studies of right which it carries out until the doctorate, and a diploma of the school of the High commercial studies, François Bénard settles as miller with Saint-Omer-in-Roadway, and engages quickly in policy.

To advise district in 1928, it is elected Maire of Saint-Omer-in-Roadway in 1929, and will remain it until 1944.

In March 1931, he is elected general adviser of the Canton of Marseilles-in-Beauvaisis and will be re-elected until the removal of the general advice by the Régime of Vichy, which names however it Member of the departmental administrative Commission in 1941, then the departmental Council set up in 1943, of which he will be the president.

In 1945, it finds its seat of general adviser, and becomes President of the General advice in 1949.

After a first failure in 1932, he is elected with the National Assembly in 1956, like candidate of " concentration républicaine" , and seems a traditional preserving agrarian candidate. He sits thus within the group of the Rassemblement of the Republican lefts. Favorable to the General de Gaulle, while continuing to claim itself of the centrist, he is re-elected into 1958,1962,1967 and 1968 pennies the label gaullist of the Union for the new Republic, then of the Union of the Democrats for the Republic.

In 1973, however, it benefits from the passage of part of the centrists and Christian-Democrats in the presidential majority of Georges Pompidou to join his political family by being registered with the group of the center Union. He dies on March 1st, 1978 and its substitute, Michel Commelin, will incrira himself, him, with the group of the UDR.

See too

• Biography of François Bénard, on the site of the National Assembly: http://www.assemblee-nationale.fr/histoire/biographies/IVRepublique/benard-francois-claude-eleonor-28011903.asp