Jean Patrick Hennessy (26 April 1874 – 4 November 1944) was a French politician.

Early life

Hennessy was born at Cherves-Richemont in the

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on 26 April, 1874. son of Maurice Hennessy and his wife Jeanne, née Foussat. His family, of Irish origin, were the proprietors of the

Hennessy Jas Hennessy & Cie., commonly known simply as Hennessy (), is a French producer of cognac, founded in 1765 by Richard Hennessy which has its headquarters in Cognac, France. It is one of the best-known cognac houses, along with Martell, Courvo ...

cognac Cognac ( , also , ) is a variety of brandy named after the Communes of France, commune of Cognac, France. It is produced in the surrounding wine-growing region in the Departments of France, departments of Charente and Charente-Maritime. Cogn ...

business, now part of

LVMH LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton SE (), commonly known as LVMH, is a French multinational holding company and conglomerate that specializes in luxury goods and has its headquarters in Paris, France. The company was formed in 1987 through the ...

Career

Hennessy was elected to the French Chamber of Deputies in the French elections on 1924 for the Cartel des Gauches. In doing so, he continued the tradition begun by his great-grandfather Jacques Hennessy, an

Orléanist Orléanist () was a 19th-century French political label originally used by those who supported a constitutional monarchy expressed by the House of Orléans. Due to the radical political changes that occurred during France in the long nineteenth ...

deputy from 1824 to 1842, and his grand-uncle Auguste Hennessy, senator from 1876 to 1879. Hennessy was re-elected in the election of 1928 and served as agriculture minister from 1928 to 1930, and then as French ambassador to Switzerland. His elder brother, James Hennessy had been elected before him to Parliament as député and senator, but he chose to dedicate himself to the management of the family business. In the 1932 general election Hennessy was defeated by Henri Malet of the

Democratic Republican Alliance The Democratic Alliance (, AD), originally called Democratic Republican Alliance (, ARD), was a French political party created in 1901 by followers of Léon Gambetta such as Raymond Poincaré, who would be president of the Council in the 1920s. ...

. Out of parliament, he founded the Social-National Party and was elected again as deputy for

Alpes-Maritimes Alpes-Maritimes (; ; ; ) is a Departments of France, department of France located in the country's southeast corner, on the France–Italy border, Italian border and Mediterranean Sea, Mediterranean coast. Part of the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'A ...

, sitting with the Independent Left group in the Chamber of Deputies. On 10 July 1940, at the joint session of the French parliament which granted strong powers to Marshal

Philippe Pétain Henri Philippe Bénoni Omer Joseph Pétain (; 24 April 1856 – 23 July 1951), better known as Marshal Pétain (, ), was a French marshal who commanded the French Army in World War I and later became the head of the Collaboration with Nazi Ger ...

, Jean Hennessy and his brother James were part of the 80 parliamentarians who opposed the measure. He had been married to Marguerite de Mun, who bore him two sons, Patrick and Kilian, and a daughter Jacqueline.

Kilian Hennessy Kilian Hennessy (; 19 February 1907 – 1 October 2010) was a French business magnate of Ireland, Irish extraction, and co-patriarch, with his first cousin Maurice, of the Hennessy cognac company. Kilian Hennessy, the son of Jean Hennessy an ...

(1907–2010) later became chairman of the Cognac business and contributed to its merger into the LVMH group.

Death

Jean Hennessy died at

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in the 4th of November, 1944, where he had lived since 1941.

References

1874 births 1944 deaths People from Charente

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