Jean-Claude Gaudin
| Jean-Claude Gaudin | |
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| Vice President of the French Senate | |
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Assumed office 8 October 2014 |
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| President | Gérard Larcher |
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Leader of Union for a Popular Movement in the Senate |
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In office 8 March 2011 – 1 October 2014 |
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| Preceded by | Gérard Longuet |
| Succeeded by | Bruno Retailleau |
| Mayor of Marseille | |
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Assumed office 25 June 1995 |
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| Preceded by | Robert Vigouroux |
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8 October 1939 Marseille, France |
| Political party |
National Centre of Independents and Peasants (1965-1973) Independent Republicans (1973-1977) Republican Party (1977-1997) Union for French Democracy (1997-2002) Union for a Popular Movement (2002-2015) The Republicans (2015-present) |
| Other political affiliations |
Union for French Democracy (1978-1998) |
Jean-Claude Gaudin (born 1939) is a French politician for The Republicans. He has been Mayor of Marseille since 1995.
He was a member of the National Assembly of France from Bouches-du-Rhône from 1978 to 1989 and has been a member of the French Senate from 1989 to 1995 and again from 1998. From 1995 to 1997, he served as Minister of Territorial Development in Alain Juppé's Second Cabinet.
He served as Vice-President of the Senate from 1998 to 2011; as Vice-President of UMP 2002–2007 and as one of several Vice-Presidents for UMP 2013–2014.
Jean-Claude Gaudin was born on October 8, 1939 in Mazargues, a neighbourhood of the 9th arrondissement in Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône, France. His ancestors lived in Mazargues since 1600. His father was a mason and his mother, as an espadrille-maker. They entertained author and playwright Marcel Pagnol (1895-1974), actress Alida Rouffe (1874-1939), and actor Raimu (1883-1946). They also had a small house at the Calanque de Sormiou, where they spent their summers.
In 1965, he was enrolled in the military service where he served briefly. Upon graduation from university, he became a teacher of history and geography for fifteen years at Saint-Joseph high school in Marseille. He was elected on the list of centrist and socialist politicians known as the “Removes iron-Rastoin” against the Gaullist party Union for the New Republic (UNR). He was subsequently elected in a local election and became one of the youngest members of the town council of Marseille. He was re-elected again in 1971.
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