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Alain Poher
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Alain Poher

1909 – 1996 · aged 87

French politician (1909-1996)

Born
17 Apr 1909 · Ablon-sur-Seine
Died
9 Dec 1996 · Paris

Life timeline

Their life from birth to death. On the timeline, world events of the time are shown faintly.

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  1. 17 Apr 1909BornBorn in Ablon-sur-Seine
  2. 1939 – 1945WarWorld War II
  3. 1946 – 1948RoleSenator of the French Fifth Republic
  4. 1950AwardKnight of the Legion of Honour
  5. 1952 – 1995RoleSenator of the French Fourth Republic
  6. 1966 – 1969RolePresident of the European Parliament
  7. 1968 – 1992RolePresident of the Senate of France
  8. 1968AwardGrand Officer of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic
  9. 1969RoleFrench co-prince of Andorra
  10. 1969RolePresident of the French Republic
  11. 1973AwardKnight Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic
  12. 1974RoleFrench co-prince of Andorra
  13. 1974RolePresident of the French Republic
  14. 1986AwardRobert Schuman Medal
  15. 1988AwardErnst Reuter Medal
  16. 1991AwardGrand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland
  17. 9 Dec 1996DiedDied in Paris

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Meanwhile in the world

Major world events during their lifetime (1909 – 1996).

  1. 1914 – 1918World War I
  2. 1915 – 1923Armenian genocide
  3. 1917Balfour Declaration
  4. 1917February Revolution
  5. 1917October Revolution
  6. 1917 – 1922Russian Civil War
  7. 1919 – 1920Paris Peace Conference
  8. 1920Treaty of Versailles
  9. 1933 – 1945The Holocaust
  10. 19341934 FIFA World Cup
  11. 19361936 Summer Olympics
  12. 1937 – 1945Second Sino-Japanese War
  13. 19381938 FIFA World Cup
  14. 1938Munich Agreement
  15. 1939 – 1940Winter War
  16. 1940 – 1945Auschwitz concentration camp
  17. 1941Attack on Pearl Harbor
  18. 1941 – 1945Eastern Front
  19. 1941Operation Barbarossa
  20. 1942 – 1943Battle of Stalingrad
  21. 1945Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
  22. 1945 – 1946Nuremberg trials
  23. 19501950 FIFA World Cup
  24. 1950 – 1953Korean War
  25. 1953 – 1959Cuban Revolution
  26. 19541954 FIFA World Cup
  27. 1955 – 1975Vietnam War
  28. 1956Hungarian Revolution of 1956
  29. 1956Suez Crisis
  30. 19581958 FIFA World Cup
  31. 1959Antarctic Treaty System
  32. 19621962 FIFA World Cup
  33. 1962Cuban Missile Crisis
  34. 19661966 FIFA World Cup
  35. 1966 – 1976Cultural Revolution
  36. 1968Prague Spring
  37. 1969Apollo 11 Moon landing
  38. 19721972 Summer Olympics
  39. 19741974 FIFA World Cup
  40. 19781978 FIFA World Cup

Biography

Alain Émile Louis Marie Poher (French: [alɛ̃ pɔɛʁ]; 17 April 1909 – 9 December 1996) was a French politician who served as president of the Senate from 1968 to 1992 and as acting president of France in 1969 and 1974. Poher was affiliated with the Popular Republican Movement (MRP) until 1966 and later with the Democratic Centre (CD) and Centre of Social Democrats (CSD), which he joined in 1976.

A native of Ablon-sur-Seine south of Paris, Poher was a longtime member of the Senate (1946–1948; 1952–1995), where he sat first for Seine-et-Oise until 1968 and then Val-de-Marne. He also served as president of the European Parliament from 1966 to 1969. As the longest-serving president of the Senate and the sole unelected president of the Fifth Republic, Poher remained an influential figure in 20th-century French politics. He ran in the 1969 presidential election but was defeated by Georges Pompidou in the second round.

Poher died at the age of 87 in 1996, a year after his retirement from the Senate.

Text from the Wikipedia article Alain Poher, CC BY-SA 4.0

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