Alphonse Desjardins (politician) explained

Alphonse Desjardins (politician) should not be confused with Alphonse Desjardins (co-operator).

Honorific-Prefix:The Honourable
Alphonse Desjardins
Honorific-Suffix:PC
Order:22nd Mayor of Montreal
Term Start:1893
Term End:1894
Predecessor:James McShane
Successor:Joseph-Octave Villeneuve
Constituency Mp2:Hochelaga
Parliament2:Canadian
Predecessor2:Louis Beaubien
Successor2:Séverin Lachapelle
Term Start2:1874
Term End2:1892
Office3:Senator for De Lorimier, Quebec
Appointed3:John Abbott
Predecessor3:Alexandre Lacoste
Successor3:François Béchard
Term Start3:1892
Term End3:1896
Office4:Minister of Militia and Defence
Term Start4:15 January 1896
Term End4:27 April 1896
Primeminister4:Mackenzie Bowell
Predecessor4:Mackenzie Bowell
Successor4:David Tisdale
Birth Date:1841 5, df=yes
Birth Place:Terrebonne, Province of Canada
Death Place:Terrebonne, Quebec, Canada
Profession:businessman, journalist, lawyer

Alphonse Desjardins, PC (6 May 1841  - 4 June 1912) was born in Terrebonne, Canada East, and was mayor of Montreal from 1893 to 1894 and later a Canadian cabinet minister. He married Virginie Paré in 1864 and remarried Hortense Barsalou in 1880.

He was a lawyer, journalist, businessman and politician. He owned a tile factory and participated in the founding of the Banque Jacques-Cartier, which later became part of the National Bank of Canada. He represented the riding of Hochelaga in the House of Commons for 18 years, serving as a cabinet minister and Minister of Militia and Defence for a few months at the end of the Mackenzie Bowell government and then the short-lived Tupper government in 1896. He was named a senator in 1892. He became mayor of Montreal from 1893 - 1894. For a time he held all three posts (member of the House of Commons, Senator, mayor) simultaneously.

In 1872, he was created a Knight of the Order of Pius IX in acknowledgment of his services to the Catholic Church.

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