Georges Chometon

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Life and career

Georges Chometon was born in Saint-Bonnet-le-Chastel, Puy-de-Dôme on 9 November 1928. His first career was as a butcher.

In 1953, Chometon married Ginette Chometon. The couple had four daughters and celebrated their 60th anniversary in July 2013.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Chometon died in Ambert on 27 September 2024, at the age of 95.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

Offices to which he was elected

• Municipal council member in Saint-Bonnet-le-Chastel (Puy-de-Dôme) from 1953
• Assistant mayor Saint-Bonnet-le-Chastel from 1959 to 1971
• Mayor of Saint-Bonnet-le-Chastel from 1971 to 2008
• President of the Communauté de communes du Haut-Livradois from 2002 to 20??
• General Conseiller from Puy-de-Dôme from 1973 to 2004, elected in the (canton de Saint-Germain-l'Herm). He lost on March 28, 2004, to a candidate representing the "various left" (divers gauche) who was 34 years his junior.
• President of the Conseil général du Puy-de-Dôme from 1992 to 1998.
• Representative to the National Assembly from Puy-de-Dôme from March 16, 1986, to June 12, 1988.<ref name="AN"/><ref name=gestion/>

Political allegiance

• Union gaulliste (led by René Capitant)
• Mouvement républicain populaire (MRP)
• centriste (center)
• Centre of Social Democrats politicians (CDS) starting in 1978
• President of the CDS departmental federation in 1992
• Union for French Democracy (while a representative 1986-1988)