Henry George Carroll

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Henry George Carroll

Henry George Carroll , PC , QC (born January 31, 1865 in Kamouraska , Québec , † August 20, 1939 in Montreal ) was a Canadian politician . From 1891 to 1904 he was a Liberal MP in the lower house , then a judge at the Supreme Court of the Province of Québec. Finally he served as Lieutenant Governor from 1929 to 1934 .

biography

Carroll studied law at the Université Laval and received 1889 admission as a lawyer . He practiced his profession in the city of Fraserville (now Rivière-du-Loup ). As a candidate for the Liberal Party , he ran for the general election in 1891 and won the Kamouraska constituency. He was re-elected in 1896 and 1900.

Prime Minister Wilfrid Laurier accepted Carroll into the federal government in February 1902. According to the law at the time, the appointment automatically required a by-election, which he also won. For the next two years he was the Cabinet's chief legal advisor as Solicitor-General. On January 28, 1904, he resigned as a member of parliament after having been appointed judge of the Québec Supreme Court.

In 1912 Carroll presided over the royal commission charged with investigating the alcohol trade. From 1921 to 1929 he was Vice President of the Québec Province Alcohol Commission. Governor General Lord Willingdon swore him in on April 4, 1929 as Lieutenant Governor of Québec. He held this representative office until May 3, 1934, as the last Anglophone to date .

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SURNAME Carroll, Henry George
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian politician, lieutenant governor of Quebec
DATE OF BIRTH January 31, 1865
PLACE OF BIRTH Kamouraska
DATE OF DEATH August 20, 1939
Place of death Montreal