Pierre-Joseph-Olivier Chauveau, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Canadian politician
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Place of Birth: Quebec City, Quebec, Canada
About Pierre-Joseph-Olivier Chauveau
- Pierre-Joseph-Olivier Chauveau (May 30, 1820 – April 4, 1890), born in Charlesbourg, near Quebec City, was a Canadian lawyer and politician.
- Chauveau was the first Premier of the Canadian province of Quebec, following the establishment of the Dominion of Canada in 1867. He was a lawyer by profession, and practised in Quebec City.
- He co-founded the Société Saint-Jean-Baptiste of Quebec City in 1842.
- He was elected to the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada in 1844, and reelected in 1848, 1851, and 1854.
- He served as solicitor-general of Lower Canada, without a seat in cabinet, from 1851 to 1853.
- From 1855 to 1867, he was superintendent of the bureau of Education. In 1867, he was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Quebec in Québec-Comté electoral district and headed a Conservative government as the first Premier of Quebec.
- He was also the Minister of Education and Provincial Secretary.
- Also beginning in 1867, he was simultaneously the federal Member of Parliament for the riding of Quebec County (such "double mandates" were abolished in 1874).
- He resigned both his federal and provincial seats, as well the office of Premier, on February 25, 1873, following appointment as Speaker of the Senate of Canada on February 21, 1873.
- He resigned from the Senate on January 8, 1874, and later that year ran unsuccessfully as a candidate for Member of Parliament in the federal election in the riding of Charlevoix. In 1878, he became professor of Roman law at Université Laval.
- He died April 4 in Quebec City in 1890.
- He had seven children, one of whom, Alexandre Chauveau, became a provincial politician in his own right.His great-great-great-grandson is politician Thomas Mulcair.
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