Preceded by Joseph Brunet | Political party Liberal Name Honore Achille | |
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Born August 13, 1864
Richelieu, Rouville County, Canada East ( 1864-08-13 ) Died August 8, 1915(1915-08-08) (aged 50) | ||
Succeeded by Louis Audet Lapointe | ||
Honoré Hippolyte Achille Gervais (August 13, 1864 – August 8, 1915) was a Canadian lawyer, professor, politician.
Born in Richelieu, Rouville County, Canada East, the son of Charles Gervais and Adele Monty, Gervais was educated at the "Petit Seminaire" of Sainte-Marie-de-Monnoir and Université Laval where he received a Master of Laws (LL.M.) in 1887 and a Doctor of Laws (LL.D) in 1889. He was admitted to the Bar of the Province of Quebec on 13 January 1887 and created a Queen's Counsel in 1897.
In 1896, he joined Université Laval as a Professor of International Law and Civil Procedure. He practiced law in partnership with Horace Archambault, former President of the Quebec Legislative Council and ex- Attorney-General, Henri-Benjamin Rainville, former Speaker of the Quebec Legislative Assembly, and Paul Rainville in the firm Rainville, Archambault, Gervais & Rainville.
He was first elected to the Canadian House of Commons for the Montreal electoral district of St. James in a 1904 by-election called after the 1902 by-election was declared void. A Liberal, he was re-elected in 1904 and 1908.