Charles Estoppey

Charles Estoppey (* February 15, 1820 in Payerne, † August 30, 1888 in Saint- Légier, hometown, right in Trey ) was a Swiss politician.

Life

After graduating in law from 1840 to 1844 at the University of Lausanne, was Estoppey Justice of the Peace in Payerne from 1845 to 1848 and then deputy prosecutor until 1861. He was also from 1849 to 1851 director of the College of Payerne and then a hardware store. From the year 1858 he was military judge and in 1862 he became licensed attorney. He was a partner of Victor Ruffy in Lausanne and later from 1862 to 1866 and from 1873 to 1874 Canton judge.

He was elected in 1852 to the National Council, where he had a seat until 1863. Between 1866 and 1873, from 1874 to 1888 he was a Liberal State Council of the Canton of Vaud and in 1875 elected to the Senate, where he had a seat until 1888. In 1875 he declined election to the Federal Council.

Estoppey was beginning in federal politics a violent radical, but later followed the political line of his party colleagues from the canton of Vaud, where he differed only in 1878 as a proponent of the so-called Gotthard compromise.

He was a member of the Zofingia and later of Helvetia.