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{{Short description|Canadian politician}}
{{For|those of a similar name|Charles Dougherty (disambiguation)}}
{{Use Canadian English|date=January 2023}}
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{{Infobox officeholder
| honorific-prefix=[[The Right Honourable]]<!--appointed to Privy Council of U.K., so entitled to "Right Honourable"-->
| name=Charles Joseph Doherty
| honorific-suffix= {{post-nominals|country=CAN|size=100%|PC|KC}}
| office        = [[Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada|Minister of Justice<br />Attorney General of Canada]]
| term_start    = October 10, 1911
| term_end      = September 20, 1921
| predecessor   = [[Allen Bristol Aylesworth]]
| successor     = [[R. B. Bennett]]
| primeminister = [[Robert Borden]]<br />[[Arthur Meighen]]
| image         = Charles Joseph Doherty.jpg
| caption       = The Rt Hon. Charles Joseph Doherty
| birth_date    = May 11, 1855
| birth_place   = [[Montreal]], [[Province of Canada]]
| death_date    = {{death date and age |1931|07|28|1855|5|11}} 
| death_place   = 
| party         = [[Conservative Party of Canada (1867–1942)|Conservative]] 
| otherparty    = [[Unionist Party (Canada)|Unionist]]
| spouse        = 
|}}

'''Charles Joseph Doherty''', {{post-nominals|country=CAN|PC|KC|sep=,|size=100}} (May 11, 1855 &ndash; July 28, 1931) was a [[Canadians|Canadian]] politician, lawyer, and judge from Quebec. He served as Minister of Justice from 1911 to 1921 and was one of Canada's representatives at the [[Paris Peace Conference (1919–1920)|Paris Peace Conference]].

==Early life and education==

Doherty was born in [[Montreal]], [[Canada East]], the son of Marcus Doherty, an Irish-born judge of the Supreme Court for the Province of Quebec<ref name="McGowan2017">{{cite book|author=Mark G. McGowan|title=Imperial Irish: Canada's Irish Catholics Fight the Great War, 1914-1918|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HwglDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT223|date=29 May 2017|publisher=MQUP|isbn=978-0-7735-5079-7|page=223}}</ref> and Elizabeth (O'Halloran) Doherty. He attended [[St. Mary's College (Montreal)|St. Mary's (Jesuit) College]] and received a Bachelor of Laws degree from [[McGill University]] in 1876 winning the Elizabeth Torrance Gold Medal for highest academic achievement.<ref name="McGowan2017" />

==Career==
Doherty was [[admitted to the bar]] in 1877. He was a candidate for the [[Legislative Assembly of Quebec]] for the [[Montréal-Ouest (provincial electoral district)|electoral district of Montreal West]] in the [[1881 Quebec general election|1881 election]], but was defeated. In 1885 he served as a [[lieutenant]] with the 65th Battalion, [[Mount Royal Rifles]] in the [[North-West Rebellion]]. He ran for office again for [[Montréal-Centre (provincial electoral district)|Montreal Centre]] in the [[1886 Quebec general election|1886 election]].

Doherty was created a [[Queen's Counsel]] in 1887.<ref name="cyclopædia">
{{cite book
|url=https://archive.org/details/cyclopdiaofcan00charuoft|title=A cyclopædia of Canadian biography
|year=1919
|via=[[Internet Archive]]
|author=Hector Willough Charlesworth
|publisher=Hunter-Rose
}}</ref> He worked as a [[lawyer]] and also taught civil and [[International law]] at [[McGill University]] prior to being appointed a judge on the Quebec [[Superior Court]] from 1891 until 1906.<ref name="cyclopædia"/> During this time he served as the president of the main Irish fraternal organization in Montreal, [[St. Patrick's Society of Montreal|St. Patrick's Society]] in 1902 and 1903.  In 1909 he became a professor of international and civil law at McGill University.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=oZQuAAAAYAAJ&q=W.H.+Grattan+Flood&pg=PA10 "Doherty, Charles",  ''The Catholic Encyclopedia and Its Makers'', New York, the Encyclopedia Press, 1917, p. 44]{{PD-notice}}</ref>

He was elected as the [[Conservative Party of Canada (historic)|Conservative]] candidate to the [[House of Commons of Canada]] for the electoral district of [[St. Anne (electoral district)|St. Anne]] in the [[1908 Canadian federal election|1908 federal election]].<ref name="cyclopædia"/> When the [[Conservative Party of Canada (1867–1942)|Tories]] won the [[1911 Canadian federal election|1911 election]], the new [[Prime Minister of Canada|Prime Minister]], Sir [[Robert Borden]], brought Doherty into the [[Canadian Cabinet]] as [[Minister of Justice (Canada)|Minister of Justice]].<ref name="Wilson2009">{{cite book|author=David A. Wilson|title=Irish Nationalism in Canada|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=63VVlvuNIqcC&pg=PA171|date=1 November 2009|publisher=McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP|isbn=978-0-7735-7639-1|page=171}}</ref><ref name="MacKenzieDutil2011">{{cite book|author1=David MacKenzie|author2=Patrice Dutil|title=Canada 1911: The Decisive Election that Shaped the Country|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DYToI3GhANEC&pg=PA294|date=7 July 2011|publisher=Dundurn|isbn=978-1-4597-0011-6|page=294}}</ref>

Doherty played a role in the creation of the [[Canadian Bar Association]] in 1912 and served as its president in 1914.

At the end of [[World War I]], Doherty was one of the Canadian delegates to the [[Versailles Peace Conference|Paris Peace Conference]], and served as Canadian delegate to the [[League of Nations]] from 1920 to 1922. He was appointed to the [[Imperial Privy Council]] in the [[1920 New Year Honours]] for his service at Versailles,<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=31712
|supp=y
|page=1
|date=30 December 1919
}}</ref> allowing him to use the title of "The Right Honourable".

Doherty remained Minister of Justice in the government of [[Arthur Meighen]] until its defeat in 1921.<ref name="Friedland1988">{{cite book|author=Martin L. Friedland|title=The Case of Valentine Shortis: A True Story of Crime and Politics in Canada|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Zq61ZoTPavwC&pg=PA228|year=1988|publisher=University of Toronto Press|isbn=978-0-8020-6728-9|page=228}}</ref>

== Archives ==

There is a Charles Joseph Doherty [[fonds]] at [[Library and Archives Canada]].<ref>{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=|title=Charles Joseph Doherty fonds, Library and Archives Canada|url=http://central.bac-lac.gc.ca/.redirect?app=fonandcol&id=5065001&lang=eng|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=|website=}}</ref>

== Electoral record ==
{{1911 Canadian federal election/St. Anne}}

By-election: On Mr. Doherty being appointed Minister of Justice, 10 October 1911

{{CanElec1-by|27 October 1911}}
{{CANelec|CA|Conservative (historical)|Charles Doherty |acclaimed}}
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==See also==
* [[Guelph Raid]]

==References==
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==External links==
{{wikiquote|Charles Joseph Doherty}}
{{wikisource|works=or|Charles Joseph Doherty}}

* {{Canadian Parliament links|ID=5423}}
* [https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/charles-doherty/ Charles Joseph Doherty] at [[The Canadian Encyclopedia]]

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