Background
GENTON, Jacques was born on September 22, 1918 in Bourges, Cher, France. Parents: Emile Genton and Stéphanie Genton (née Jomier).
GENTON, Jacques was born on September 22, 1918 in Bourges, Cher, France. Parents: Emile Genton and Stéphanie Genton (née Jomier).
Alain-Foumier High School, Bourges. Faculties of Law and Letters, Paris, second degree in law (public law and political economy). Independent School of Political Sciences, diploma.
Principal Private Secretary to Prefect. Secretary-General of Prefecture for Cher, 1945. Sub-Prefect of Gourdon.
1947; Principal Private Secretary to Prefect of Alger. Deputy for Cher, 1951-1955. Techncial adviser and Deputy Principal Private Secretary to Maurice Faure, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, 1956-1958.
Sub-Prefect hors classe (top-ranking), on detachment. Retired as sub-Prefect, 1973. Secretary-General of Economic and Social Committee of European Communities, 1958-1971.
Senator for Cher, 1971, re-elected 1980, 1989. Member of Commission for Foreign Affairs, Defence and the Armed Forces. Mayor of Sancerre, since 1971.
Rapporteur on Defence Budget (commune section), 1978-1985. Rapporteur on military programming laws, 1976, 1981,1986 and 1989. Chairman of Cher Mayors Association, since 1977.
Member of French delegation to United Nations General Assembly, 1977-1978, 1986, 1989. Departmental Councillor for Sancerre canton, since 1982. Chairman of Senatorial delegation for European Communities, since 1979.
Chairman of Senate Commission for Foreign Affairs, Defence and Armed Forces, 1986. Member of Senate delegation to North Atlantic Treaty Organization Parliamentary Assembly, 1986. President, civil Affairs Commission, North Atlantic Treaty Organization Parliamentary Assembly, 1989, and member, since 1989.