Joseph-Adolphe Chapleau
| The Right Honourable Sir Joseph-Adolphe Chapleau KCMG | |
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| 5th Premier of Quebec | |
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In office October 31, 1879 – July 29, 1882 | |
| Monarch | Victoria |
| Lieutenant Governor | Théodore Robitaille |
| Preceded by | Henri-Gustave Joly de Lotbinière |
| Succeeded by | Joseph-Alfred Mousseau |
| MLA for Terrebonne | |
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In office September 1, 1867 – July 29, 1882 | |
| Preceded by | Provincial district created in 1867 |
| Succeeded by | Guillaume-Alphonse Nantel |
| Member of the Canadian Parliament for Terrebonne | |
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In office July 29, 1882 – December 5, 1892 | |
| Preceded by | Guillaume-Alphonse Nantel |
| Succeeded by | Pierre-Julien Leclair |
| 7th Lieutenant Governor of Quebec | |
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In office December 5, 1892 – January 20, 1898 | |
| Monarch | Victoria |
| Governor General |
The Lord Stanley of Preston The Earl of Aberdeen |
| Premier |
Charles Boucher de Boucherville Louis-Olivier Taillon Edmund James Flynn Félix-Gabriel Marchand |
| Preceded by | Auguste-Réal Angers |
| Succeeded by | Louis-Amable Jetté |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
November 9, 1840 Sainte-Thérèse, Lower Canada |
| Died |
June 13, 1898 (aged 57) Montreal, Quebec |
| Political party | Conservative Party of Quebec |
| Other political affiliations | Conservative |
| Spouse(s) | Marie-Louise King (m. 1874) |
| Cabinet |
Solicitor General (1873–1874) Minister Without Portfolio (1876–1878) Provincial Secretary (1876–1878) Commissioner of Agriculture and Public Works (1879–1881) Commissioner of Railways (1880–1881) Secretary of State of Canada (1882–1892) Minister of Customs (1892) |
| Religion | Roman Catholic |
Sir Joseph-Adolphe Chapleau, PC, KCMG (November 9, 1840 – June 13, 1898), born in Sainte-Thérèse, Quebec, was a French-Canadian lawyer and politician.
Life
As a lawyer, he defended Ambroise-Dydime Lépine against the charge of murdering Thomas Scott during the Red River Rebellion of 1869 – 1870.
He served as the fifth Premier of the Canadian province of Quebec, federal Cabinet minister, and the seventh Lieutenant Governor of Quebec.
After the 1878 Quebec election, he was the Leader of the Opposition. He became premier in 1879 after the fall of the minority government of Henri-Gustave Joly de Lotbinière. He won the 1881 election, but resigned on July 29, 1882 to seek election to the federal House of Commons. He won a by-election held on August 16, 1882.
Chapleau planned to quit politics in 1885 when Louis Riel was sentenced to be hanged but decided to stay, fearing it would only inflame the situation. After Riel was hanged, he was attacked by Quebecers who accused him of the death of Riel along with John A. Macdonald.
He served as Minister of Justice under prime ministers John A. Macdonald and John Abbott, but declined to serve under John Thompson. He resigned in 1892, and was appointed Lieutenant Governor of Quebec from December 1892 until January 1898. He died in June of that same year in Montreal.
Elections as party leader
He won the 1881 election.
Family
On 25 November 1874, he married Marie Louise, daughter of Lieutenant-colonel Charles King of Sherbrooke in the province of Quebec.[1]
See also
Notes
References
Carlyle, Edward Irving (1901). "Chapleau, Joseph Adolphe". In Sidney Lee. Dictionary of National Biography, 1901 supplement. London: Smith, Elder & Co. - "Biography". Dictionnaire des parlementaires du Québec de 1792 à nos jours (in French). National Assembly of Quebec.
- Biography at the Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online
- Joseph-Adolphe Chapleau – Parliament of Canada biography
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