Complex sentence: He became Counselor of the French Union from 1947 to 1958 he was Minister of Agriculture to Félix Houphouët-Boigny from 1959 to 1961, and personal adviser to the president of the Ivory Coast shortly after its independence from France in 1961 to 1964.
Split into simpler sentences: He became Counselor of the French Union from 1947 to 1958. He was Minister of Agriculture to Félix Houphouët-Boigny from 1959 to 1961 and personal adviser to the president of the Ivory Coast shortly after its independence from France in 1961 to 1964.