Philippe Adjutor Talbot, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Canadian politician
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Place of Birth: Saint-Pierre-de-la-Rivière-du-Sud, Quebec, Canada
About Philippe Adjutor Talbot
- Philippe Adjutor Talbot (November 11, 1879—March 8, 1967) was a politician in Manitoba, Canada.
- He served in the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba from 1915 to 1936, and was Speaker of the Assembly from 1923 to 1936.
- His name sometimes appears as Peter Talbot. Talbot was born at St.
- Pierre du Sud, in the county of Montmagny, Québec, the son of Elzear Talbot and Delina Bacon, and was educated at St.
- Ferdinand d'Halifax College.
- Talbot first worked as a telegraph operator and was employed with the Canadian National Railway until 1906.
- He was a broker and a director of Canadian Agencies Limited and Northern Supply Co., Ltd.
- Talbot was a business partner of Aimé Bénard.
- In 1913, he married Charlotte Duguet.He first ran for the Manitoba legislature in the 1914 provincial election, as a candidate of the Manitoba Liberal Party in La Verendrye.
- He lost to Conservative Jean-Baptiste Lauzon by 228 votes.
- He ran again in the 1915 election, and defeated Lauzon by 155 votes amid a provincial Liberal landslide. Talbot initially served as a backbench supporter of Tobias Norris's ministry, but later left the party to become an independent member over the Manitoba Schools question.
- He was re-elected as an independent in the 1920 provincial election, defeating Farmer candidate L.R.
- Magnum by 314 votes.
- He became affiliated with the United Farmers of Manitoba (UFM) after this election, and was re-elected under the UFM banner in the 1922 provincial election.
- The UFM unexpectedly won a majority of seats, and formed government as the Progressive Party.
- Talbot was named as Speaker of the Legislature when it met on January 18, 1923, and continued in this office for the next thirteen years.Talbot was re-elected without difficulty in the 1927 provincial election.
- In 1932, the Progressive Party formed an electoral alliance with the Liberal Party, and government members became known as "Liberal-Progressives".
- Talbot was narrowly returned in the 1932 campaign, defeating Conservative R.J.E.
- Arpin by only 76 votes.
- He did not seek re-election in 1936. From 1937 to 1948, he served as clerk of the Executive Council.
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