From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jean Hennessy
Jean Hennessy
Jean Patrick Hennessy (26 April 1874–4 November tarians who opposed the measure. He died at Lausanne in
1944) was a French politician. Switzerland in 1944 where he had lived since 1941.
Hennessy was born at Cherves-Richemont in the
Charente département, son of Maurice Hennessy and his
wife Jeanne, née Foussat. His very wealthy family, of Irish
References
origin, were the proprietors of the Hennessy cognac busi- • François Dubasque, Jean Hennessy (1874-1944). Argent et
ness, now part of LVMH. Jean and his brother James in- réseaux au service d’une nouvelle République, Presses
herited their father’s wealth, over one million French Universitaires de Rennes, 2008.
Francs, on his death in 1905. • Jean Hennessy dictionnaire des parlementaires
Hennessy was elected to the French Chamber of français de 1889 à 1940 (J.Joly)
Deputies in the French elections on 1924 for the Cartel Persondata
des Gauches. In doing so, he continued the tradition be- Name Hennessy, Jean Patrick
gun by his great-grandfather Jacques Hennessy, an Or-
léanist deputy from 1824 to 1842, and his grand-uncle Au- Alternative names
guste Hennessy, senator from 1876 to 1879. Hennessy was Short description
re-elected in the election of 1928 and served as agricul- Date of birth 1874
ture minister from 1928 to 1930, and then as French am-
Place of birth
bassador to Switzerland.
In the 1932 general election Hennessy was defeated Date of death 1944
by Henri Malet of the Democratic Republican Alliance. Place of death
Out of parliament, he founded the Social-National Party
and was elected again as deputy for Alpes-Maritimes, sit-
ting with the Independent Left group in the Chamber of
Deputies.
On 10 July 1940, at the joint session of the French par-
liament which granted extraordinary powers to Marshal
Philippe Pétain, Hennessy was one of the 80 parliamen-
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Jean Hennessy in 1930 while serving as French ambassador to
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