Joseph-Adolphe Chapleau
Template:Short description Template:Use mdy dates Template:Use Canadian English Template:Infobox officeholder Sir Joseph-Adolphe Chapleau Template:Post-nominals (Template:IPA; November 9, 1840 – June 13, 1898), born in Sainte-Thérèse, Quebec, was a French-Canadian lawyer and politician who served as the 7th Lieutenant Governor of Quebec from 1892 to 1898.
Life
Template:Stack 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 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, Quebec. His funeral monument can be seen at the Notre Dame des Neiges Cemetery.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
Elections as party leader
He won the 1881 election.
Family
On November 25, 1874, he married Marie Louise, daughter of Lieutenant-colonel Charles King of Sherbrooke in the province of Quebec.Template:Sfn
Legacy
The community of Chapleau, Ontario was named for him.<ref>Matt Bray, "Chapleau". The Canadian Encyclopedia, October 18, 2012.</ref>
Electoral record
Template:1891 Canadian federal election/Terrebonne Template:1887 Canadian federal election/Terrebonne Template:CanElec1-by Template:CANelec Template:End Note: popular vote is compared to vote in 1882 general election.
See also
- List of Quebec general elections
- Politics of Quebec
- Provincial premiers who have become Canadian MPs
- Timeline of Quebec history
References
Further reading
- Munro, Kenneth J. "The political career of Sir Joseph-Adolphe Chapleau" (PhD Dissertation, University of Ottawa; ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 1973. DC53350).
- DUSSAULT, Roy. « Défense des intérêts des Canadiens français et unité de la Confédération canadienne : la pensée nationaliste de Joseph-Adolphe Chapleau, 1840–1898». Mémoire de maîtrise, Québec, Université Laval, 2018, 177 p.
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- Joseph-Adolphe Chapleau fonds, Library and Archives Canada.
- Biography at the Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online
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