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), Source: Who's who notice. is a French politician, member of

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Biography

Boyer was born in Blanzac, near

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), he began in the 1970s a career as a local elected representative. Mayor of Blanzac from 1971 to 1995. In 1979 he became the general counsel of canton of Saint-Paulien. Then, in 1985, he became the vice-president of the General Council of Haute-Loire, then chaired by the centrist

Jacques Barrot Jacques Barrot (3 February 1937 – 3 December 2014) was a French politician, who served as European Commissioner for Justice between 2008 and 2010, after having spent four years serving as Commissioner for Transport (2004–2008) and Commissi ...

( UDF – CDS). He was also a member of the

regional council of Auvergne The Regional Council of Auvergne (, ) was the deliberative assembly of the former French region of Auvergne. The assembly sat in Clermont-Ferrand. The regional council was made up of 47 regional councilors elected from its departments, distribu ...

from 1986 to 1998. Source
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In addition to his political activities, he holds various positions within the professional agricultural organizations. Vice-president of the Mutualité sociale agricole (1983), president of the Conservatoire botanique national du Massif Central of

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(1996–2003), he was appointed in 1996 member of the Economic, Social and Environmental Council, of which he chairs the agriculture section and food until 2001. Candidate DVD in the 2001 senatorial elections, he defeated the outgoing Guy Vissac ( RPR) and becomes a senator from Haute-Loire. At the Senate, he specializes in agricultural issues and joins the group of the Centrist Union (UC), of which he was elected vice-president. In 2011, after having given up the vice-presidency of the General Council, he announced his intention to run for a new parliamentary mandate. He was re-elected senator and elected secretary of the Senate in October 2011. Member of the New UDF in the 2000s, he subsequently joined

, and in 2010 participated in the founding of the federation of

of the Centrist party. Jean Boyer is a knight of the Legion of Honor, an officer of the

Ordre national du Mérite The Ordre national du Mérite (; en, National Order of Merit) is a French order of merit with membership awarded by the President of the French Republic, founded on 3 December 1963 by President Charles de Gaulle. The reason for the order's estab ...

and commander of the Mérite agricole. He announced in January 2014 his intention to leave the Senate on the following 1 October to allow the election of his deputy, Olivier Cigolotti.fr / politics / 2014/01/10 / jean-boyer-I-resign-from-my-post-senator-on-October 1
Le Progrès, 10 January 2014

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