Jean-Pierre Plichon

At the age of 29 Plichon ran for election in the second district of Hazebrouck, Nord, as candidate of the Republican Union. The seat had been occupied by his uncle, Lieutenant-Colonel Jean Plichon, since 1889. In his campaign he made the point that his family had already provided two deputies for the Nord department. He defended the family, stood for protection of commerce and industry, and supported higher prices for farmers and the right for them to organize. He did not have a clear majority in the first round of voting on 26 April 1936, but won in the second round on 3 May 1936.^[2]

Jean-Pierre Plichon was a member of the Chamber of Deputies representing the Nord department from 3 May 1936 to 31 May 1942^[a] as a member of the Independent Republicans and Social Action group.^[1] He was a member of committees on aeronautics and civil and criminal law. He was active in addressing the concerns of his constituents. He proposed laws to provide aid to victims of floods in the Nord, and to clear rivers. He wanted to encourage private construction, but was against excessive rents. He proposed large rural works to combat unemployment, and organization of the coal market. He was interested in many rural questions such as duties on imported hops, veterinary medicine, sharecropping and wheat.^[2]

Plichon sat on about 20 company boards.^[9] He was aged 32 at the outbreak of World War II (1939–45). He intervened on the subjects of tax relief for mobilized people, maintaining territorial integrity, suppressing espionage and excluding communists from the chamber of deputies. After the defeat of France, on 10 July 1940 he voted in favor of granting the requested constitutional powers to Marshal Philippe Pétain.^[2]

Jean-Pierre Plichon died in Lille, Nord, on 14 May 1966.^[1]