Alexandre Lacoste Explained

Honorific-Prefix:The Honourable
Sir Alexandre Lacoste
Office1:Senator for De Lorimier, Quebec
Appointed1:John A. Macdonald
Predecessor1:Jacques-Olivier Bureau
Successor1:Alphonse Desjardins
Term Start1:January 11, 1884
Term End1:September 15, 1891
Office2:Member of the Legislative Council of Quebec for Mille-Isles
Predecessor2:Jean-Baptiste Lefebvre de Villemure
Successor2:Charles Champagne
Term Start2:March 4, 1882
Term End2:December 6, 1883
Birth Date:13 January 1842
Birth Place:Boucherville, Canada East
Death Place:Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Party:Conservative
Relations:Louis Lacoste, father
Children:Justine Lacoste-Beaubien
Portfolio:Speaker of the Senate (April 27, 1891 – September 15, 1891)

Sir Alexandre Lacoste, (January 13, 1842  - August 17, 1923) was a Canadian lawyer, professor, and politician.

He was born in Boucherville, Canada East (now Quebec) in 1842, the son of Louis Lacoste. From 1880 to 1923, he was a professor of law at the Université de Montréal.

In 1882, he was appointed to the Legislative Council of Quebec. In 1884, he was called to the Senate of Canada representing the senatorial division of De Lorimier, Quebec. A Conservative, in April 1891, he was appointed Speaker of the Senate and served until he resigned from the Senate in September 1891 when he was appointed Chief Justice of the Court of Queen's Bench of Quebec. He retired in 1907. In 1892 he was made a Knight Bachelor. He died in Montreal in 1923 and he was entombed at the Notre Dame des Neiges Cemetery in Montreal.[1]

Family

Alexandre Lacoste married Marie-Louise Globensky, daughter of Leon Globensky, of Montreal on May 8, 1866. She was member of the First presidential board, Fédération nationale Saint-Jean-Baptiste, Montréal, 1907. She was a member of the Advisory Board of the Parks and Playgrounds Association of Montreal.

The couple's eldest son, Louis Joseph Lacoste married Bertha Louisa, daughter of M. S. Foley, Esquire, editor-proprietor of the Journal of Commerce. Marie, their eldest daughter, wrote legal text-books and married an Advocate, Henri Gerin-Lajoie.

Blanche, their second daughter, married Joseph P. Landry, son of Senator Landry. Another daughter, Justine married Louis de Gaspe, son of Hon. Louis Beaubien. Justine Lacoste-Beaubien was a founder of the children's hospital Sainte-Justine Hospital.[2]

References

Notes and References

  1. Book: Répertoire des personnages inhumés au cimetière ayant marqué l'histoire de notre société. Notre Dame des Neiges Cemetery. Montreal. fr.
  2. Book: Morgan . Henry James . Henry James Morgan . Types of Canadian Women and of Women who are or have been Connected with Canada . Toronto . Williams Briggs . 1903 . 191.