Raoul Bleuse

Raoul Bleuse
Deputy for the 49th Legislative District of the Seine

In office
Legislative Session II

25 November 1962 – 2 April 1967
Preceded by Michel Peytel (UNR)
Succeeded by [1]
Personal details
Born (1895-09-09)September 9, 1895
Ribemont
Died 8 June 1984(1984-06-08) (aged 88)
Alfortville
Nationality French
Political party SFIO, PSA, PSU, SFIO

Raoul Bleuse (9 September 1895 in Ribemont – 8 June 1984 in Alfortville), is a French politician.

Early life

He voluntarily enlisted in the army in October 1913, took part to World War I, and was demobilized in August 1919. In 1921 he enlisted in the police as well as in the French Social-Democrat Party (SFIO).He was dismissed from the police in 1942 due to his activities in the French Resistance, then reinstated in 1945.[2]

Political career

He was elected as mayor of Alfortville from 1947 to 1965 and as general councillor in the Seine department from 1953 to 1967.[2]

In September 1958, he joined the splinter left-wing Autonomous Socialist Party (PSA), was unsuccessfully candidate for the 1958 legislative election, getting less than 10% of votes. In 1960, the PSA merged into the Unified Socialist Party (PSU). He was one of only two PSU candidates elected at the National Assembly after the 1962 legislative election, with François Tanguy-Prigent, even if he only got 16.6% for the first round, but the Communist candidate Roland Foucard (28.5%) stepped down between the two rounds, in order to let him win the race. He first joined the unaffiliated group of deputies, then came back to the SFIO parliamentary group in April 1963 and left it 2 years later.[2]

Sources

  1. ↑ The Seine department ceased to exist in 1968, the legislative district was then part of the Val-de-Marne department
  2. 1 2 3 Raoul Bleuse, biography on the website of the French National Assembly
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