Henry Chéron

Henry Chéron (Lisieux, May 11th 1867 - Lisieux, April 14th 1936), was a Politician French.

Biography

Deputy then senator of the Apple-brandy, Henry Chéron was with many recoveries minister under the III {{E}} République. Lawyer, it inaugurated his political career in 1894 while becoming mayor of his native commune: Lisieux. It did not have whereas 27 years. But they were only twelve years later that it reached national responsibilities. Hardly elected official appointed in 1906, the president of the Council Georges Clémenceau offered to him the post of under-secretary of State to the war.

The quality of its work, its integrity and its popularity ensured Henry Chéron a succession of ministerial positions: justice, Finance, Trade, postal and telecommunications authority, Agriculture, Minister for Labor (1913) (1922) (1928-1930) (1930 and 1934). These various responsibilities, to which are added its president's function of the General advice of the Apple-brandy (1911-1936) and his election as senator (1913), obliged it to give up the town hall of Lisieux. It found however its armchair of mayor at the end of his life, of 1932 to 1936. The main street of Lisieux bears its name in homage besides.

Henry Chéron was one of the most known politicians of his time even if it never reached the presidency of the Council. The many caricatures of which it was the object and various nicknames that it accepted (“the Gambetta of Normandy”, the “Gaspard father”, “the small bearded fairy of the soldier”) prove its success near the French. The press did not fail to quote its jokes. When it accepted the under-secretary's department with the navy (1909-1910), it reassured his colleagues who doubted his experiment: “ I have already the marine foot, I made a success of the crossing of Trouville - Deauville by the vat! ”. The autodérision was one of its favorite jokes besides. When he told with a banquet that he had known Sainte Therese de Lisieux child, it did not fail to conclude: “ Since then, it became holy and me, I have turned out badly ”.

Henry Chéron incarnates one of the models of the politician of the III {{E}} République. He was carried by a Norman electorate which appreciated especially his person, his temperament and which did not pay much attention to its political affiliation. Chéron besides, sailed of radicalism to conservatism. It was also notable, concerned from the local point of view as national to as well post its concern of the people of modest means and middle-classes. With Lisieux, it was in the beginning many social works; it increases and modernized the hospital. As an under-secretary with the war, it attempted to improve the fate of the soldiers (it replaced in particular their puttees by socks). One often sees it visiting the barracks and discussing familiarly with the conscripts. Lastly, the mayor of Lisieux represents the figure of the provincial middle-class man: its actions with the ministry and its speech reveal a careful policy. He spoke in praise of the saving by praising the merits of the “savings French”. It évertua, as a Minister for Finance, to present each year a budget balanced without weighing down the taxes. From this preoccupation with an economy, its nickname comes from “Gaspard father”.

He was not always success. Its passage to the navy disappointed and a slogan arrived to us (“ Chéron-life-expensive ”) proves that the man was not always popular. But, its massive physique, its distributed malicious and its Norman character made a figure of the of it III {{E}} République.

Electoral mandates

Mayor of Lisieux (1894-1936)
General adviser of the canton of Lisieux (1901-1936)
President of the general advice of the Apple-brandy (1911-1936)
Appointed Apple-brandy (1906-1913)
Senator of the Apple-brandy (1913-1936)

Political responsibilities

Under-secretary of State to the war (October 1906 - July 1909)
Under-secretary of State to the navy (January 1909 - November 1910)
Minister for Labor (March-December 1913)
Minister for agriculture (January 1922 - March 1924)
Minister commercial and industry (September-November 1928)
Minister for Finance (November 11th, 1928 - February 21st, 1930)
Minister for justice (November 1930 - January 1931), February-October 1934)
Minister for Finance (December 18th, 1932 - January 31st, 1933)
Minister for justice (February-October 1934)

Ministerial action

It succeeds in maintaining the balance in the budget without weighing down the taxes and supports the agricultural production. Its formula " the ear will save the franc " remained famous.
It makes vote the law of December 30th, 1928 instituting a case of insurance and protection against the agricultural catastrophes.
One owes him the decree of February 17th, 1930 on the administrative organization and financial of the municipal controls.

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