Roger Gervolino (

Nouméa Nouméa () is the capital and largest city of the French Sui generis collectivity, special collectivity of New Caledonia and is also the largest Francophone city in Oceania. It is situated on a peninsula in the south of New Caledonia's main i ...

, 17 December 1909 – Nouméa, 24 April 1991) was a

New Caledonia New Caledonia ( ; ) is a group of islands in the southwest Pacific Ocean, southwest of Vanuatu and east of Australia. Located from Metropolitan France, it forms a Overseas France#Sui generis collectivity, ''sui generis'' collectivity of t ...

n politician. He served as a member of the

National Assembly of France The National Assembly (, ) is the lower house of the Bicameralism, bicameral French Parliament under the French Fifth Republic, Fifth Republic, the upper house being the Senate (France), Senate (). The National Assembly's legislators are known ...

for three terms, from 21 October 1945 to 10 June 1946, 2 June 1946 to 27 November 1946, and 10 November 1946 to 4 July 1951, sitting as a member of the

Democratic and Socialist Union of the Resistance The Democratic and Socialist Union of the Resistance (, UDSR) was a French political party founded after the liberation of France from German occupation, mainly active during the Fourth Republic (1947–58). It was a loosely organised "cadre p ...

. In August 1946, he urged the French government to allow New Caledonia to access foreign markets.

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* 1909 births 1991 deaths People from Nouméa New Caledonian people of French descent Democratic and Socialist Union of the Resistance politicians Members of the Provisional Consultative Assembly Members of the Constituent Assembly of France (1945) Members of the Constituent Assembly of France (1946) Deputies of the 1st National Assembly of the French Fourth Republic Members of Parliament for New Caledonia Free French military personnel of World War II Recipients of the Resistance Medal {{NewCaledonia-politician-stub