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Alphonse Desjardins (politician)

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Preceded by
  
James McShane

Preceded by
  
Alexandre Lacoste

Preceded by
  
Louis Beaubien

Name
  
Alphonse Desjardins

Succeeded by
  
Severin Lachapelle

Role
  
Lawyer

Appointed by
  
John Abbott


Alphonse Desjardins (politician)

Succeeded by
  
Joseph-Octave Villeneuve

Died
  
June 4, 1912, Terrebonne, Canada

Alphonse Desjardins, PC, KPO (6 May 1841 – 4 June 1912) was born in Terrebonne, Quebec and was mayor of Montreal from 1893 to 1894 and later a Canadian cabinet minister. He married Virginie Paré in 1864 and remarried Hortense Barsalou in 1880.

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He was a lawyer, journalist, businessman and politician. He owned a tile factory and participated in the founding of the Banque Jacques-Cartier, which later became part of the National Bank of Canada. He represented the riding of Hochelaga in the House of Commons for 18 years, serving as a cabinet minister and Minister of Militia and Defence for a few months at the end of the Mackenzie Bowell government and then the short-lived Tupper government in 1896. He was named a senator in 1892. He became mayor of Montreal from 1893–1894. For a time he held all three posts (member of the House of Commons, Senator, mayor) simultaneously.

In 1872, he was created a Knight of the Order of Pius IX in acknowledgment of his services to the Catholic Church.

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