Background
LEJEUNE, Prof. Max was born on February 19, 1909 in Flesselles, Somme, France. Parents: Paul Lejeune.
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LEJEUNE, Prof. Max was born on February 19, 1909 in Flesselles, Somme, France. Parents: Paul Lejeune.
Amiens College; Paris Faculty of Letters, Bachelor of Arts. Graduate in Higher Geographical Studies.
Deputy, Abbeville, 1936-1940. Delegate to the Provisional Consultative Assembly, 1944-1945. Member of the two Constituent Assemblies, 1945-1946.
Socialist Deputy, Somme, 1946-1958. Mayor of Abbeville, since 1947. County Councillor of southern canton of Abbeville since 1945.
Chairman, Somme County Council, since 1945. Chairman, Picardie Regional Council, 1978. Minister for War Veterans (Blum government, 1947).
Secretary of State for the Armed Forces (War), 1948-1951. Chairman, National Assembly Defence Ctlee., 1954-1955. Secretary of State for the Armed Forces (Land), Guy Mollet Cabinet, 195657.
Minister for the Sahara, 1957-1958. Minister ofState, 1958. Minister for the Sahara, Charles de Gaulle Cabinet, 1958-1959.
Re-elected Deputy for the Somme (Abbeville), 1958-1977. Vice-Chairman of National Assembly, 1947-1948, 1967-1968 and 1970-1971. Chairman of the Reformist, Centrist and Social Democrat Group in the National Assembly, 197477.
Chairman and founder of Social Democratic Party of France, 1973. Leftist Democratic Senator for the Somme, since 1977. Titular Judge at the High Court of Justice, 1977.
Spouse Andrée Sébastien, 1935. Children: Jean-Jacques, Marianne.