Jacques Pelletier | |
Office: | Mediator of the French Republic |
Term Start: | 5 March 1992 |
Term End: | 2 April 1998 |
President: | François Mitterrand Jacques Chirac |
Predecessor: | Paul Legatte |
Successor: | Bernard Stasi |
Office2: | Secretary of State for Education |
Term Start2: | 3 April 1978 |
Term End2: | 13 May 1981 |
President2: | Valéry Giscard d'Estaing |
Primeminister2: | Raymond Barre |
Office3: | Senator for Aisne |
Term Start3: | 1 October 1998 |
Term End3: | 3 September 2007 |
Birth Date: | 1 August 1929 |
Birth Place: | Villers-en-Prayères, Aisne, France |
Death Place: | Val-de-Grâce hospital, 5th arrondissement of Paris, France |
Party: | Radical Party |
Education: | Lycée Janson-de-Sailly |
Jacques Pelletier (1 August 1929 in Villers-en-Prayères – 3 September 2007 in Val-de-Grâce hospital, Paris) was a French politician, who served as Senator of Aisne four times: first from 1966 to 1978, second from 1980 to 1988, a month in 1989, and finally from 1998 to 2007. He also served as French Ombudsman (Médiateur de la République) from 1992 to 1998. In 1996, he was made Knight of the National Order of the Legion of Honor.[1] [2] [3] [4]