Hervé Brouhon [SEP] date of birth
Hervé Brouhon
Hervé Brouhon (18 June 1924 – 10 April 1993) was a Belgian politician for the Belgian Socialist Party.
Brouhon was born in Etterbeek. He became a teacher, he was first elected as a municipal councillor in Brussels in 1950 and became its first socialist mayor from 1983 to 1993. He had also been member of the Belgian Chamber of Representatives from 1958 to 1985, and briefly Minister for Social Welfare in 1965-1966. Brouhon died in Anderlecht in 1993.
political career started in 1983 when he worked on the cabinet of Hervé Brouhon, then the mayor of Brussels. He became an alderman for the Parti Socialiste in 1988, and mayor of Brussels between 1994 and 1995. He served in the Brussels Parliament from 1995 until 1999, when he became a member of the European Parliament. After the municipal elections of 2000, he again became the mayor of Brussels from early 2001 on. He resigned in 2013 due to his age, and was succeeded by Yvan Mayeur.
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