Edward Stuart McDougall, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Edward Stuart McDougall

Canadian judge

Date of Birth: 25-Sep-1886

Place of Birth: Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Date of Death: 19-Jun-1957

Profession: judge, lawyer, politician

Nationality: Canada

Zodiac Sign: Libra


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About Edward Stuart McDougall

  • Edward Stuart McDougall (25 September 1886 – 19 June 1957) was a Canadian politician and judge.
  • He was a judge on the Court of King's Bench of Quebec and the International Military Tribunal for the Far East.
  • In 1936, McDougall was briefly the Quebec minister of finance in the first government of Adélard Godbout. McDougall was born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
  • He earned a law degree from McGill University and became a member of the Quebec bar in 1913.
  • At the beginning of the First World War, in 1914, he volunteered in Princess Patricia Regiment of the Canadian Army.
  • He was sent to the front in 1915 and was wounded in 1917, after which he returned to Montreal.
  • At the end of the war, McDougall was a major. In 1922, he married Katherine Eleanor Mackenzie.
  • They had a daughter. In June 1936, Adélard Godbout succeeded Louis-Alexandre Taschereau as premier of Quebec.
  • Wanting to dissociate from old government, which was sullied by the scandals, Godbout sought out some non-politicians to serve in his cabinet.
  • McDougall accepted Godbout's offer to become provincial treasurer (minister of finance).
  • McDougall was sworn in on 27 June 1936 and immediately began campaigning for election to the Quebec National Assembly in the 1936 election as a Liberal.
  • McDougall ran in the constituency of Montreal-Saint-Laurent.
  • On 17 August 1936, McDougall was beaten by Thomas Joseph Coonan, the Union Nationale candidate, by less than 200 votes.
  • The Union Nationale won more seats than the Liberals, and Godbout's short term as premier also came to an end. In 1942, McDougall was appointed as a judge of the Court of King's Bench of Quebec (the former name of the Quebec Court of Appeal), the highest appellate court in Quebec.
  • In 1946, McDougall represented Canada as a judge on the International Military Tribunal for the Far East in Tokyo. McDougall died in Montreal.
  • He was survived by his wife, daughter and 3 grandchildren.

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