Maurice Destenay | |
Birth Name: | Maurice Jean Léon Destenay |
Birth Date: | 1900 2, df=yes |
Birth Place: | Tilleur, Belgium |
Death Place: | Liège, Belgium |
Nationality: | Belgian |
Occupation: | politician |
Maurice Jean Léon Destenay (in French detənɛ/; 18 February 1900 – 1 September 1973) was a Belgian liberal politician and burgomaster. Destenay was a teacher and pedagogue and became the founder and director of the monthly magazine Action Libérale. He became alderman and burgomaster (1963–1973) in Liege[1] and a member of parliament (1949–1965) in the district of Liege. Between 1954 and 1958, he was President of the Liberal Party.[2]