Ésioff-Léon Patenaude
Ésioff-Léon Patenaude , PC , KC (born February 12, 1875 in Saint-Isidore , Québec , † February 7, 1963 in Montreal ) was a Canadian politician . He was a member of the National Assembly of Québec and the Canadian House of Commons . From 1915 to 1917 and in 1926 he was a member of the Federal Cabinet. Eventually he served as Vice Governor of the Province of Québec from 1934 to 1939 .
biography
Patenaude studied law at the Université Laval and received 1899 admission as a lawyer . He gained his first political experience in Montreal as the organizer of the election campaigns of the Conservative Party of Canada . As a candidate for the Parti conservateur du Québec , he entered the elections to the National Assembly of Québec in 1908 and was successful in the La Prairie constituency; he was re-elected four years later.
In 1915, Patenaude resigned in order to take part in a by-election in the Hochelaga lower house constituency. He was elected by acclamation due to a lack of opposing candidates , whereupon Prime Minister Robert Borden accepted him into the federal cabinet. Patenaude was initially Minister of Domestic Taxes, and from January 1917 Minister of Mines. In July 1917, he resigned in protest of the government's decision to introduce conscription . He did not run for the October election.
Patenaude ran successfully in the Jacques-Cartier constituency for election to the National Assembly in 1923. Two years later, he announced his resignation again to run for the 1925 general election. The conservative opposition leader Arthur Meighen had persuaded him to do so . Patenaude organized the Conservative election campaign in Québec. But he was not able to assert himself in his constituency, nor was his party able to grow in that province. In June 1926 Meighen took over the government again as a result of the King Byng Affair and appointed Patenaude as Minister of Justice and Attorney General , although he did not have a mandate at the time. In the subsequent general election in September 1926 , the Conservatives suffered losses and Patenaude was not elected.
Governor General Lord Bessborough sworn in godfather on May 3, 1934, as Lieutenant Governor of Québec, on the advice of Conservative Prime Minister Richard Bedford Bennett . He held this representative office until December 30, 1939. Then he turned to business. Among other things, he was President of the Provincial Bank of Canada , the life insurance company L'Alliance and the Canadian branch of Texaco .
Web links
- Biography on the Québec National Assembly website
- Ésioff-Léon Patenaude - biographical information on the website of the Canadian Parliament (English)
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SURNAME | Godfather, Ésioff-Léon |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Canadian politician, lieutenant governor of Quebec |
DATE OF BIRTH | February 12, 1875 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Saint-Isidore (La Nouvelle-Beauce) |
DATE OF DEATH | February 7, 1963 |
Place of death | Montreal |