Theodore Baudon

Theodore Baudon is a French Politician, born on August 4th, 1848 with Mouy (Oise) and deceased on October 22nd, 1913 with Paris.

Resulting from a family of doctors installed in Mouy, Theodore Baudon also directs him towards medicine. Ambulance man during the War Free-Prussian of 1870, it settles then as doctor in his native commune, and starts a local political career, under the republican and laic banner.

He besides will be very implied in the Franc-maçonnerie, becoming even member of the Council about the Grand the East of France.

Mayor and general adviser of Mouy, it is presented to the partial legislative election of February 18th, 1897, caused by the death of Lesage deputy.

He is elected, under the radical label, against the mayor of Beauvais, Olivier Hucher, candidate of the center-right. Their electoral confrontation will be republished in 1898,1902 and 1906, always with the profit of the mayor of Mouy.

Throughout all its mandate of deputies, it defends the radical positions of the moment, in particular for the income tax, and the fight anticlerical.

Between 1906 and 1910, it chairs the commission of accountancy of the House of Commons.

Its political career is completed in 1910, when Olivier Hucher obtains finally his revenge and carries it in the district of Beauvais.

Theodore Baudon settles then definitively in Paris, where he dies on October 22nd, 1913.

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