Gaspard Fauteux

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Gaspard Fauteux , PC (born August 27, 1898 in Saint-Hyacinthe , Québec , † March 29, 1963 in Montreal ) was a Canadian politician . From 1931 to 1935 he was a member of the National Assembly of Québec , from 1942 to 1950 a Liberal member of the Canadian lower house . He then served as Vice-Governor of the Province of Quebec until 1958 .

biography

Fauteux came from a politically influential family. Both his grandfather Honoré Mercier and his uncle Lomer Gouin had been Prime Minister of Québec. His grandmother was married to the House of Commons and later Senator Joseph Godbout . Fauteux studied at the Université de Montréal and received a diploma as a dentist in 1921 . He first practiced this profession in the Beauce region , and from 1926 in Montreal . There, on his initiative, a dental institute was set up in the Hôtel-Dieu de Montréal hospital .

As a candidate for the Parti libéral du Québec , Fauteux was elected to the provincial parliament in 1931 , where he was able to prevail in the constituency of Montréal-Sainte-Marie against the conservative Montreal mayor Camillien Houde . Four years later he lost his mandate and turned back to his profession. For the Liberal Party of Canada he ran a by-election for the lower house constituency of Sainte-Marie in 1942 and was elected with a large margin. In 1945 and 1949 he was re-elected.

During his time as a member of parliament, Fauteux campaigned against the introduction of conscription and was a delegate at UN conferences after the Second World War . From 1945 to 1949 he was Speaker of the Lower House. Governor General Lord Alexander swore him in on October 3, 1950 as Vice Governor of Québec. He held this representative office until February 14, 1958. Fauteux received three honorary doctorates : 1950 from the Université Laval , 1951 from the Université de Montréal and 1957 from McGill University .

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SURNAME Fauteux, Gaspard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian politician, lieutenant governor of Quebec
DATE OF BIRTH August 27, 1898
PLACE OF BIRTH Saint-Hyacinthe
DATE OF DEATH March 29, 1963
Place of death Montreal