Francis Giraud (1932 – 2010) was a French physician.
Biography Francis Giraud is the son of Paul Giraud, a professor of medicine, and Marie-Louise Jauffret.
A student at the Sacré-Cœur boarding school, he pursued his studies at the Faculty of Medicine in Marseille.
Political career Francis Giraud became mayor of Roquefort-la-Bédoule in 1983, and was re-elected four times under the RPR and UMP labels, with the list he led winning in the first round of the 2008 municipal elections.
Elected senator for Bouches-du-Rhône on September 27, 1998, through proportional representation, he was a member of the Parliamentary Office for the Evaluation of Scientific and Technological Choices from 2002 to 2004 and did not run again in 2008.
In 2007, he introduced a bill concerning the teaching staff of general medicine, co-signed among others by Senator Yves Fréville, submitted on November 6, 2007, adopted on December 12, 2007, and promulgated on February 9, 2008.
Vice-president of the Urban Community of Marseille Provence Métropole, to whose creation he had contributed, he resigned from his position as mayor in September 2009, remaining a municipal councillor. Francis Giraud died on October 23, 2010, from pancreatic cancer.
Distinction Ordre national de la Légion d'honneur april 12, 2009; Knight on March 23, 1991. Ordre des Palmes académiques (1994)Décret du 28 Juillet 1994 portant promotion et nomination dans l'ordre des palmes académiques. Publié dans le Bulletin officiel des décorations, médailles et récompenses 8 october 1994.
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