Justin Catayée | |
Birth Date: | 30 May 1916 |
Birth Place: | Cayenne, French Guiana |
Nationality: | French |
Death Place: | , Guadeloupe |
Party: | French Section of the Workers' International (1951 - 1956) Guianese Socialist Party (from 1956) |
Office: | Member of the National Assembly for Guiana |
Term Start: | 30 November 1958 |
Term End: | June 1962 |
Successor: | Léopold Héder |
Justin Catayée (; 30 May 1916 - 22 June 1962) was a French politician who served in the French National Assembly from 1958–1962 and was the founder of the Guianese Socialist Party and hero of World War II.[1] He was born in Cayenne, French Guiana, and died in the crash of Air France Flight 117 into a mountain in Guadeloupe on 22 June 1962.