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Georges Étienne Dansereau

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Preceded by
  
Georges Dansereau

Party
  
Quebec Liberal Party

Political party
  
Liberal

Name
  
Georges-Etienne Dansereau

Resigned
  
1948

Role
  
Politician


Georges-Etienne Dansereau

Born
  
August 12, 1898 Sainte-Agathe-des-Monts, Quebec (
1898-08-12
)

Cabinet
  
Minister without Portfolio Minister of Public Works Minister of Roads

Died
  
February 20, 1959, Grenville, Quebec, Canada

Succeeded by
  
William McOvat Cottingham

Georges-Étienne Dansereau (August 12, 1898 – February 20, 1959) was a Canadian politician.

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Born in Sainte-Agathe-des-Monts, Quebec, the son of Georges Dansereau, a politician, and Herminie Larose, Dansereau was educated at the École de Grenville and the Collège Sainte-Marie in Montreal. In 1918, he started working with his father in Grenville, Quebec. He succeeded his father as president in 1935.

From 1935 to 1949, he was mayor of Grenville. He was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Quebec for Argenteuil in 1935. He was re-elected in 1936, 1939, and 1944. He was a Minister without Portfolio in the cabinet of Adélard Godbout in 1939. He was Minister of Public Works from 1942 to 1944 and Minister of Roads in 1944. He was defeated in 1948.

He was made a Knight of the Order of St. Sylvester in 1958.

He died in Grenville in 1959.

References

Georges-Étienne Dansereau Wikipedia