Henri Caillavet (born February 13, 1914) is a French political figure most prominent during the postwar years 1946-58, when, during the Fourth Republic, he was a member of the National Assembly and as a Senator from 1967-1985.
A native of Agen, Lot-et-Garonne, and trained as a lawyer, Henri Caillavet is renowned in France as a veteran guardian of civil liberties. He proposed bills concerning gay rights, abortion, transgender issues, divorce by mutual consent, euthanasia and organ transplants.
He was a freemason and an atheist.
In January 1953, the ministerial portfolio of France d'Outre-mer was conferred on him in the government of René Mayer, then that of the Navy in the government of Pierre Mendès France in 1954. In 1958, he opposed General Charles de Gaulle in voting against his investiture and against the new Constitution.
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