Sherif Sid Cara

Born the November 26th 1902 in Mila (department of Constantine), deceased on March 6th, 1999 with Grenoble, Dr. Chérif Sid Cara was one of the principal Moslem political personalities French pro-Algeria during the Guerre of Algeria, and one of the three only Algerian Secretaries of State Moslem of the French Republic after Abdelkader Barakrok and before its sister Nafissa Sid Cara, after whom it was necessary to wait 40 years and a new right government to see a Moslem member in a French government, Tokia Saïfi, joined then by a veteran of French Algeria, Hamlaoui Mékachéra.

It was to advise Republic in turn, i.e. senator (elected the December 8th 1946 on the Liste democratic of union free-Moslem woman, re-elected the November 7th 1948 and the May 18th 1952), then appointed (elected the September 20th 1953, re-elected the November 30th 1958 on the list of the Union for the revival of French Algeria). It sat at the Senate as a member connected with the " Group gathering of the Republican lefts and Left démocratique" from April 1949 at September 1953.

He exercised also various local mandates in Algeria: assistant of the mayor of Oran as of 1935, re-elected in 1953, mayor of Misserghin (department of Oran) until July 1962, member of the district council of Oran, chair general advice of Oran (1955 - 1962).

He was briefly Secretary of State in Algeria at the end of the Fourth Republic in the governments Bourges-Maunoury (June 12th - September 30th 1957) and Gaillard (November 6th 1957 - April 15th 1958).

He became then copresident, with the general Jacques Massu, of the Comité of public hello (pre-putschistes French pro-Algeria which forced the arrival of de Gaulle to the capacity) in May 1958, then re-elected in November with the National Assembly, where he sat until in 1962.

In 1959, his/her sister Nafissa Sid Cara was elected appointed of Algiers and entered to the French government until in 1962.

Itself putschist in 1958, Sherif Sid Cara, as a president of the general advice of Oran, publishes with twenty other general advisers an official statement of support on April 24th, 1961 for the putsch of Algiers of the generals Raoul Salan, Maurice Challe, Edmond Jouhaud and André Zeller. They “greet there with enthusiasm the paddle of definitively French Algeria, obvious pledge of a real fraternity… ”, and “… present the homage deeply moved by their recognition to the French Army and its chiefs of which they are declared completely interdependent… ”. It is deceased in 1999.

Sources

Doctor Chérif SID CARA (site created by his/her son on the village of Misserghin)
Sherif Sid-Cara (site of the friends of Raoul Salan)

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