Office3: | Senator for French Polynesia |
Term Start3: | 1977 |
Term End3: | 1998 |
Predecessor3: | Pouvanaa a Oopa |
Successor3: | Gaston Flosse |
Constituency Am11: | Windward Islands |
Assembly11: | French Polynesian |
Term Start11: | 10 September 1967 |
Term End11: | 22 May 1982 |
Birth Date: | 26 August 1928[1] |
Birth Place: | Papeete, French Polynesia[2] |
Death Date: | 21 June 2016 |
Death Place: | Punaauia |
Party: | E'a Api |
Daniel Millaud (26 August 1928 — 21 June 2016) was a French Polynesian politician who represented French Polynesia in the French Senate from 1977 to 1998. He was a member of E'a Api. He was the nephew of politician Jean Millaud and the brother of politician Sylvain Millaud.[2]
Millaud was born in Papeete.[2] He was educated at Saint-Elme school in Arcachon, Gironde, then trained as a dentist.[3]
He entered politics at the urging of his uncle and became a municipal councillor.[2] He was elected to the Assembly of French Polynesia as an E'a Api candidate in the 1967 French Polynesian legislative election.[4] He was re-elected at the 1972 election. At the 1977 election he was co-leader with Francis Sanford of the United Front, and was re-elected.[5]
At the 1971 senatorial election he was deputy to Pouvanaa a Oopa,[6] and filled Oopa's seat following his death in 1977.[2] He was re-elected in the 1980 senatorial election.[7] [8] As a senator he called for a South Pacific common market,[9] and for Clipperton Island to be annexed to French Polynesia.[10] He was re-elected in 1989.[11] In 1995 he condemned France's resumption of nuclear testing at Mururoa.[12]
He died in June 2016 after a long illness.[2]