Honorific-Prefix: | The Honourable |
Jean-Paul Deschatelets | |
Office: | Speaker of the Senate of Canada |
Term Start: | September 5, 1968 |
Term End: | December 13, 1972 |
Appointer: | Roland Michener |
Nominator: | Pierre Trudeau |
Predecessor: | Sydney John Smith |
Office1: | Minister of Public Works |
Primeminister1: | Lester B. Pearson |
Term Start1: | April 22, 1963 |
Term End1: | February 11, 1965 |
Predecessor1: | Davie Fulton |
Successor1: | Lucien Cardin |
Office2: | Senator for Lauzon, Quebec |
Appointed2: | Lester B. Pearson |
Predecessor2: | Léonard Tremblay |
Successor2: | Michel Cogger |
Term Start2: | February 24, 1966 |
Term End2: | January 10, 1986 |
Riding3: | Maisonneuve—Rosemont |
Parliament3: | Canadian |
Term Start3: | August 10, 1953 |
Term End3: | November 7, 1965 |
Predecessor3: | Sarto Fournier |
Successor3: | J. Antonio Thomas |
Birth Date: | 9 October 1912 |
Birth Place: | Montreal, Quebec, Canada |
Death Place: | Montreal, Quebec, Canada |
Restingplace: | Notre Dame des Neiges Cemetery |
Party: | Liberal |
Children: | 3 |
Education: |
Jean-Paul Deschatelets (October 9, 1912 - December 11, 1986) was a Canadian parliamentarian.
Born in Montreal, Quebec, he was first elected to the House of Commons of Canada in 1953 as a Liberal Member of Parliament for the riding of Maisonneuve—Rosemont. He was re-elected in 1957, 1958, 1962, and 1963. He was Minister of Public Works from 1963 to 1965.
In 1966, he was appointed to the Senate representing the senatorial division of Lauzon, Quebec. He resigned in January 1986. He was the Speaker of the Senate of Canada from 1968 to 1972.
After his death in 1986, he was entombed at the Notre Dame des Neiges Cemetery in Montreal.[1]