Ernest Lapointe

Ernest Lapointe , PC , KC (born October 6, 1876 in Saint-Éloi , Québec ; † November 26, 1941 ) was a Canadian lawyer and politician of the Liberal Party who, with short interruptions, was a member of the House of Commons for 37 years and was a minister in the Cabinets of Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King was.

Life

After attending school, Lapointe first completed an undergraduate degree , which he completed with a Bachelor of Arts (BA). A subsequent postgraduate studies of law at the University of Laval , he finished with a Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.) and a Doctor of Laws (LL.D.) and then took a job as a lawyer on. For his lawyer's merits, he later became Attorney-General (King's Counsel) appointed.

Lapointe began his political career when he was elected as a candidate for the Liberal Party in a by-election in the Kamouraska constituency on February 12, 1904 for the first time as a member of the lower house. In this constituency he was re-elected in the subsequent elections on November 3, 1904 , October 26, 1908 , September 21, 1911 and December 17, 1917 . On October 27, 1919, he renounced the mandate for this constituency after he had been elected to the House of Commons by the death of the previous constituency holder, chairman of the Liberal Party and former Prime Minister Wilfrid Laurier , in the constituency of Quebec East . In this constituency, he was re-elected in the election of December 6, 1921 , but temporarily resigned his mandate after joining the government on January 2, 1922.

On December 29, 1921 Lapointe was appointed to the 12th Canadian Cabinet and took over the office of Minister for Navy and Fisheries in this until January 29, 1924. In the meantime, he was re-elected as a member of the House of Commons in the by-election in the constituency of Quebec East on January 19, 1922, which was required by his mandate waiver . His entry into the cabinet was essentially made possible by the fact that Rodolphe Lemieux, also from Québec, had renounced a ministerial office and instead became speaker of the lower house. At the same time he held the office of Minister of Justice and Attorney General from January 4 to January 29, 1924, initially in an executive role, before he was Minister of Justice and Attorney General from January 30, 1924 to June 28, 1926. In the election of October 29, 1925 , he was re-elected MP in the constituency of Quebec East and held the post of Secretary of State for Canada in the twelfth cabinet from March 4 to the end of King's term on June 28, 1926.

In the election of September 14, 1926 , Lapointe was re-elected to the House of Commons for the Liberal Party in the constituency of Quebec East . After the end of the conservative minority government of Prime Minister Arthur Meighen , he was appointed by Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King to the 14th Cabinet of Canada on September 25, 1926, where he was again appointed Attorney General and Attorney General until August 6, 1930. After he had formally resigned his mandate on October 4, 1926 due to the assumption of these government offices, he was re-elected as a member of the House of Commons in the by-election in the constituency of Quebec East on November 2, 1930 and in the elections on July 28, 1930 and re-elected October 14, 1935 .

After the Liberal Party's victory in the election of October 14, 1935, Lapointe was appointed by Prime Minister King on October 23, 1935 to Canada's 16th Cabinet , in which he again held the post of Minister of Justice until his death on November 26, 1941 and attorney general and at the same time was executive secretary of state for Canada from July 26, 1939 to May 8, 1940. In the election of March 26, 1940 , he was also re-elected in the constituency of Quebec East , a member of the House of Commons, to which he also belonged until his death.

The Lac Lapointe was named in honor of Lapointe , a lake in the administrative region of Côte-Nord in the province of Québec. He was the father of Hugues Lapointe , who was also a member of the House of Commons from 1940 to 1957, several times a minister and between 1966 and 1978 Vice-Governor of Québec . His nephew Arthur-Joseph Lapointe was also a member of the House of Commons from 1945 to 1945, while his son, Ernest Lapointe's great-nephew, Jean Lapointe , was a member of the Canadian Senate for Quebec from 2001 to 2000 .

Web links and sources

• Ernest Lapointe - biographical information on the website of the Canadian Parliament (English)
• Canadian Ministries at rulers.org