Henri Lafleur Explained

Henri Lafleur
Office1:Member of the Senate
Term1:1959–1974
Predecessor1:Armand Ohlen
Successor1:Lionel Cherrier
Office2:Member of the Council of the Republic
Term2:1947–1955
Successor2:Armand Ohlen
Office3:Member of the Territorial Assembly
Term3:1938–40, 1947–53, 1957–59, 1962–71
Constituency3:South
Birth Date:1902
Birth Place:Nouméa, New Caledonia
Death Date:1974

Henri Lafleur (1902 – 1974) was a New Caledonian politician. A member of the Senate of France from 1959 until 1974, he sat as an Independent Republican.

He was elected to the General Assembly in the 1946–47 elections, and was subsequently elected as the New Caledonian member of the Council of the Republic. He did not contest the 1953 elections, but was re-elected to the renamed Territorial Assembly in 1957. He was forced to resign from the Assembly when he was elected to the Senate in 1959, but returned to the island legislature again after being elected in 1962. He was re-elected to the Assembly in 1967, but resigned from the body in 1971 to concentrate on his work as a Senator.[1]

His son, Jacques, was the speaker of the Congress of New Caledonia and a leading light in the anti-independence party who died in 2010.

Notes and References

  1. https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-332062856/view?partId=nla.obj-332479761#page/n33/mode/1up People