Auguste-Réal Angers

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Auguste-Réal Angers

Sir Auguste-Réal Angers KCB , PC (born October 4, 1837 in Québec , † April 14, 1919 in Westmount ) was a Canadian politician and judge . He was a member of both the Canadian Senate and the House of Commons . He held several ministerial posts in three conservative federal cabinets and in the provincial government of Québec . From 1887 to 1892 he served as Vice-Governor of the Province of Québec.

biography

Most biographers assume that Angers was born on October 4, 1838 in the provincial capital of Quebec. His birth certificate cannot be found, however, and the 1901 census register states that he was born a year earlier in the Beauport suburb . There is evidence that he was adopted as a toddler by the writer François-Réal Angers .

Angers studied law at the Université Laval and the approval was given in 1860 as a lawyer . He then practiced his profession in the city of Québec. In 1874 he stood as a candidate for the Parti conservateur du Québec for a by-election for a seat in the National Assembly of Québec and won the constituency of Montmorency. Charles-Eugène Boucher de Boucherville , who had become the new Prime Minister as a result of the Tanneries scandal , accepted Angers as Solicitor General (legal advisor) in the provincial government in October 1874. In January 1876, he was appointed Attorney General .

Lieutenant Governor Luc Letellier de Saint-Just deposed Boucherville in March 1878 and appointed Henri-Gustave Joly de Lotbinière as his successor. Angers was defeated by 14 votes in the election that followed. After a successful by-election, he moved into the Canadian House of Commons in February 1880 , where he again represented Montmorency. But in November of the same year he gave up his seat after he had been appointed judge at the Supreme Court of Québec. Governor General Lord Lansdowne swore in Angers on October 29, 1887 as Lieutenant Governor of Québec. In the course of the Chaleur Bay scandal , he set up a commission of inquiry against Prime Minister Honoré Mercier in August 1891 . On December 16, he fired Mercier on charges of corruption.

Angers remained in office until December 5, 1892, after which the Canadian Prime Minister John Thompson named him a senator and appointed him to the federal government as Minister of Agriculture. On July 12, 1895, he resigned to protest the inactivity of Thompson's successor, Mackenzie Bowell, on the Manitoba school issue . In Charles Tupper's short-lived government, he was President of the Privy Council from May 1 to July 8, 1896 . Angers resigned as senator to vote in the 1896 general election, but lost significantly. He then settled in Montreal and practiced as a lawyer again.

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SURNAME Angers, Auguste-Réal
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian politician and lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH October 4, 1837
PLACE OF BIRTH Quebec
DATE OF DEATH April 14, 1919
Place of death Westmount