André Resampa
Interior Minister
In office
May 1959  February 1971
Preceded byNone (position first established)
Succeeded byPhilibert Tsiranana
Personal details
Born(1924-06-24)24 June 1924
Mandabe, Madagascar
Died17 May 1993(1993-05-17) (aged 68)
Madagascar
Political partySocial Democratic Party

André Resampa (June 24, 1924 – May 17, 1993) was a Malagasy politician who was the influential Interior Minister of Madagascar at the beginning of the independence in 1960,[1] and appointed as 1st Vice President of Madagascar from October 1970 until February 1971.

Biography

Born on June 24, 1924, in Mandabe (Mahabo District), He went to Mandabe's primary school then to the regional school of Morondava. He attended courses at the Administrative Section of Ecole Le Myre de vilers where he graduated. He then entered the Administration as a Writer-Interpret and changed his way to Judicial Services and became Court Secretary. He earned a Law Certificate and was named Director of Court Secretaries.

Political career

Recipient of six honors, he was elected member of the Tulear's Provincial Assembly in 1952, and was reelected in 1957. That same year, he was designated to become Parliament Representative, then elected member of the National Assembly in October 1958. Meanwhile, he had been elected member of the Government Counsel on May 27, 1957, as the Education Minister and later on Social Affairs. Nominated in May 1959, as Interior Minister, he kept his mandate after the October 10, 1960's Constitution of the Government became effective.

References

  1. Thompson, Virginia; Richard Adloff (1965). The Malagasy Republic: Madagascar Today. Stanford University Press. p. 108. ISBN 9780804702799.
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