Charles Boucher de Boucherville explained

Sir Charles-Eugène-Napoléon Boucher de Boucherville
Order:3rd Premier of Quebec
Term Start:September 22, 1874
Term End:March 8, 1878
Predecessor:Gédéon Ouimet
Successor:Henri-Gustave Joly de Lotbinière
Lieutenant Governor:René-Édouard Caron
Luc Letellier de St.-Just
Term Start3:December 21, 1891
Term End3:December 16, 1892
Predecessor3:Honoré Mercier
Successor3:Louis-Olivier Taillon
Monarch3:Victoria
Lieutenant Governor3:Auguste-Réal Angers
Joseph-Adolphe Chapleau
Order4:Senator for Montarville, Quebec
Term Start4:February 12, 1879
Term End4:September 10, 1915
Predecessor4:Louis Lacoste
Successor4:Charles-Philippe Beaubien
Appointed4:John A. Macdonald
Office5:Member of Legislative Council for Montarville
Term Start5:July 1, 1867
Term End5:September 10, 1915
Appointed5:Narcisse Fortunat Belleau
Birth Date:May 4, 1822
Birth Place:Montreal, Lower Canada
Death Place:Montreal, Quebec
Party:Conservative Party of Quebec
Otherparty:Conservative Party of Canada
Spouse:Susan Elizabeth Morrogh
Marie-Céleste-Esther Lussier
Honorific-Prefix:Senator the Honourable

Sir Charles-Eugène-Napoléon Boucher de Boucherville (May 4, 1822  - September 10, 1915) was a Canadian politician and medical doctor. He twice served as the premier of Quebec.

Personal life

Boucher was born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Descended from Pierre Boucher, he was one of the three children of Pierre Boucher de Boucherville (1780 - 1857), Seigneur of Boucherville, and Marguerite-Émilie de Bleury (1786 - 1812), sister of Clément-Charles Sabrevois de Bleury. Boucher de Boucherville took his MD from McGill University, graduating with an MD in 1843.

Political career

During the Chauveau administration, he served as Speaker of the Legislative Council. He became premier in 1874 when his predecessor, Gédéon Ouimet, had to resign due to a financial scandal. He then won the 1875 Quebec election but was removed from office on March 8, 1878, in a conflict with Lieutenant Governor Luc Letellier de Saint-Just. Letellier de Saint-Just refused to approve legislation that had been passed by both houses of the Quebec legislature that would have forced municipalities to pay for railway construction. The Lieutenant-Governor deposed Boucher de Boucherville, and called on the Leader of the Opposition, Henri-Gustave Joly de Lotbinière, to form a government.

Boucher de Boucherville's second term came about after Honoré Mercier was removed from office by Lieutenant Governor Auguste-Réal Angers on December 16, 1891, on charges of corruption. Mercier was later cleared.

After Conservative leader Louis-Olivier Taillon had lost the 1890 election and his own seat, Jean Blanchet had taken over as Leader of the Opposition to the Mercier government. Blanchet, however, had resigned on September 19, 1891, to accept an appointment as a judge. The Lieutenant Governor, therefore, needed a Conservative to fill the post of Premier and turned to Boucher de Boucherville.

Boucher de Boucherville served for one year but resigned when former Conservative premier Joseph-Adolphe Chapleau was appointed Lieutenant-Governor in December 1892. Relations between the two may have been strained. By 1915 the oldest legislator in North America, he died that year in Montreal at the Deaf and Dumb Institute, in whose work he was so interested that he lived there.

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