Henri Lafleur Biography
Henri Lafleur (1902 – 1974) was a New Caledonian politician. A member of the Senate of France from 1959 until 1974, he sat as an Independent Republican.
He was elected to the General *embly in the 1946–47 elections, and was subsequently elected as the New Caledonian member of the Council of the Republic. He did not contest the 1953 elections, but was re-elected to the renamed Territorial *embly in 1957. He was forced to resign from the *embly when he was elected to the Senate in 1959, but returned to the island legislature again after being elected in 1962. He was re-elected to the *embly in 1967, but resigned from the body in 1971 to concentrate on his work as a Senator.
His son, Jacques, was the speaker of the Congress of New Caledonia and a leading light in the anti-independence party who died in 2010.
