Preceded by Joseph Godbout Succeeded by Lucien Moraud | Name Jacques Bureau | |
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Nominated by William Lyon Mackenzie King Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King Preceded by John Babington Macaulay Baxter | ||
Succeeded by Georges Henri Boivin | ||
Jacques Bureau, (July 9, 1860 – January 23, 1933) was a Canadian politician.
Born in Trois-Rivières, Canada East, the son of J. Napoleon Bureau and Sophie Gingras, Bureau was educated at Nicolet College and received a Bachelor of Laws degree in 1881 from Laval University. A lawyer, he was elected to the Canadian House of Commons for the riding of Three Rivers and St. Maurice in the 1900 federal election. A Liberal, he was re-elected in 1904, 1908, 1911, 1917, and 1921. From 1907 to 1911, he was the Solicitor General of Canada. From 1921 to 1925, he was the Minister of Customs and Excise. In 1925, after his involvement in the King-Byng Affair, he was called to the Senate of Canada representing the senatorial division of La Salle, Quebec. He served until his death in 1933.