About Marie-Thérèse Goutmann
Lived 1933 – 2016 (aged 83). Marie-Thérèse Goutmann was a French politician.
Marie-Thérèse Goutmann was a communist politician and the first woman to chair a Senate parliamentary group in France.
She was born in 1933 to the painter and resistance fighter Jean Milhau. She joined the French Communist Party at the age of 18, and after several unsuccessful election attempts became a senator for Seine-Saint-Denis in 1968. She chaired the communist parliamentary group after the death of Jacques Duclos in 1975 until 1978.
In 1986, she received a six-month suspended sentence and 8,000 franc fine for electoral fraud in the municipal elections of Noisy-le-Grand.
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Who was Marie-Thérèse Goutmann?
French politician (1933-2016)
When was Marie-Thérèse Goutmann born?
Marie-Thérèse Goutmann was born on 29 August 1933 in Jouars-Pontchartrain.
When did Marie-Thérèse Goutmann die?
Marie-Thérèse Goutmann died on 29 September 2016 in Montpellier.
What was Marie-Thérèse Goutmann's occupation?
Marie-Thérèse Goutmann was a politician.
What nationality was Marie-Thérèse Goutmann?
Marie-Thérèse Goutmann was French.
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