Jean-Thomas Taschereau (lawyer)

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Jean-Thomas Taschereau (1876)

Jean-Thomas Taschereau (born December 12, 1814 in Québec , Lower Canada , today: Québec ; † November 9, 1893 ) was a Canadian lawyer who was a judge at the Supreme Court of Canada between 1875 and 1878 .

Life

Taschereau came from the well-known Taschereau family and was a son of the eponymous politician Jean-Thomas Taschereau and his wife Marie Panet. His younger brother Elzéar-Alexandre Taschereau was Archbishop of Québec between 1871 and 1898 , and on June 7, 1886, he was the first Canadian to be elevated to cardinal status. His grandfather was the politician Gabriel-Elzéar Taschereau .

After attending the Petit Séminaire de Québec in 1832, he himself began studying law , which was customary at the time, in the law firm of his cousin Joseph-André Taschereau and later with the maritime law specialist Henry Black . After his legal registration in 1836, he completed a supplementary study of law at the University of Paris and settled after his return in 1837 in Quebec City , where he as to 1855 Lawyer ran his own law firm.

After Taschereau was assistant judge from 1855 to 1865, he was appointed judge at the High Court of the Province of Québec in 1865 . In addition, he taught between 1855 and 1857 as a professor of commercial law at Laval University . In 1873 he became a judge at the now higher court (Court of Queen's Bench) of Québec. On 30 September 1875 his appeal was made to the judge at the Supreme Court of Canada by Prime Minister Alexander Mackenzie . He served on the Supreme Court until his resignation on October 6, 1878.

Taschereau was married twice, on September 1, 1840 in her first marriage to Louise-Adèle Dionne, daughter of the politician Amable Dionne . In his second marriage, he married on June 23, 1862 Sillery Marie-Joséphine Caron, whose father René-Édouard Caron , who was both mayor of the city of Québec and vice-governor of the province of Québec . His two marriages had twelve children, including Louis-Alexandre Taschereau , who was Prime Minister of Québec between 1920 and 1936 , and Henri-Thomas Taschereau , who was a member of the Lower House of Canada from 1872 to 1878 and Chief Justice between 1907 and his death in 1909 of Québec. His grandson Robert Taschereau , a son of Louis-Alexandre Taschereau, was also a member of the Supreme Court of Canada from 1940 to 1967 and was its chairman from 1963 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jean-Thomas Taschereau on the homepage of the National Assembly of Québec
  2. ^ Gabriel-Elzéar Taschereau on the homepage of the National Assembly of Québec
  3. ↑ Joseph-André Taschereau on the homepage of the National Assembly of Québec
  4. ^ Henry Black on the Québec National Assembly home page
  5. ^ Supreme Court of Canada: Judges
  6. ^ Entry in the Dictionary of Canadian Biography
  7. ^ Entry in the Dictionary of Canadian Biography
  8. ^ Louis-Alexandre Taschereau on the homepage of the National Assembly of Québec
  9. ^ Henri-Thomas Taschereau on the homepage of the Parliament of Canada
personal data
SURNAME Taschereau, Jean-Thomas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH December 12, 1814
PLACE OF BIRTH Québec , Lower Canada , today: Québec
DATE OF DEATH November 9, 1893