Louis Ruchonnet

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Louis Ruchonnet
Born	Antoine Louis John Ruchonnet (1834-04-28)28 April 1834 Lausanne, Vaud, Switzerland
Died	14 September 1893(1893-09-14) (aged 59) Bern, Bern-Mittelland, Switzerland
Resting place	Bois-de-Vaux Cemetery, Lausanne, Vaud, Switzerland 46°31′25″N 6°35′37″E / 46.5237°N 6.5936°E / 46.5237; 6.5936
Monuments	Musee des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne (portrait) Old Town of Lausanne (bronze statue)
Education	Univ. of Lausanne, 1856 (MLaw)
Occupation	Patent attorney
Years active	1859 – 1893
Office	President of the Swiss Confederation
Term	1883, 1890
Predecessor	Simeon Bavier, Bernhard Hammer
Successor	Emil Welti
Political party	Free Democratic Party of Switzerland
Parents	François-Louis Ruchonnet (father) Susanne Boomer (mother)
Awards	Doctorate (honorary), University of Bern (1886)

Antoine Louis John Ruchonnet (28 April 1834, in Lausanne – 14 September 1893, in Bern) was a 19th-century Swiss attorney and politician. In 1864, he founded the Vaud Credit Union (French: l'Union vaudoise de crédit).^[1]