Hubert Rouger

Hubert Rouger ( born October 6, 1875 in Calvisson, † September 21, 1958 in Nîmes) was a French politician. From 1910 to 1919 and from 1924 to 1942 he was a deputy of the National Assembly.

Rouger, who came from a family of winemakers, practiced this profession until the age of 30, when he became the manager of a printing office of the labor movement. Already at the age of 21 he had joined a socialist movement. He was editor of a socialist newspaper called Combat social. In 1908 he moved into the City Council of Nîmes and a annuality was elected mayor of the city later. In 1910 he entered the National Assembly for the SFIO in the department of Gard. In the following elections in 1914, he could scarce prevail against Gaston Bazile. After a five year hiatus from 1919 to 1924, in which he was not a Member of Parliament, he moved again in 1924 to parliament. 1928, 1932 and 1936, he was re-elected. Rouger voted in 1940 for the Enabling Act of the Vichy regime. Formally he remained until 1942 deputy, was until his death in 1958 but not politically active.