Joseph-Alfred Mousseau Explained

Honorific-Prefix:The Honourable
Joseph-Alfred Mousseau
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Order:6th
Office:Premier of Quebec
Term Start:July 29, 1882
Term End:January 22, 1884
Lieutenant Governor:Théodore Robitaille
Predecessor:Joseph-Adolphe Chapleau
Successor:John Jones Ross
Office2:MLA for Jacques-Cartier
Term Start2:August 26, 1882
Term End2:January 22, 1884
Predecessor2:Narcisse Lecavalier
Successor2:Arthur Boyer
Constituency Mp3:Bagot
Parliament3:Canadian
Term Start3:January 22, 1874
Term End3:July 29, 1882
Predecessor3:Pierre-Samuel Gendron
Successor3:Flavien Dupont
Birth Date:July 17, 1837
Birth Place:Sainte-Geneviève-de-Berthier, Lower Canada
Death Place:Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Party:Conservative Party of Quebec
Otherparty:Conservative
Relations:Joseph Octave Mousseau (brother)
Cabinet:Attorney General (1882–1884)
President of the Privy Council (1880–1881)
Secretary of State of Canada (1881–1882)

Joseph-Alfred Mousseau (July 17, 1837 – March 30, 1886), was a Canadian lawyer and politician, who served in the federal Cabinet and also as the sixth premier of Quebec.

Biography

He was born in Sainte-Geneviève-de-Berthier, Lower Canada, the son of Louis Mousseau, the son of Alexis Mousseau, and Sophie Duteau, dit Grandpré. Mousseau was first elected to the House of Commons of Canada as a Conservative Member of Parliament in the 1874 election for the riding of Bagot, and was re-elected three times. In 1880, he was elevated to the Cabinet of Prime Minister Sir John A. Macdonald, serving first as president of the Queen's Privy Council of Canada, and then as Secretary of State for Canada.

Exchanging places with Joseph-Adolphe Chapleau, Mousseau left federal politics to become the sixth Premier of the province of Quebec from July 31, 1882. He served until his resignation on January 22, 1884, after being appointed as a puisne judge of the Superior Court for the district of Rimouski. He died in Montreal in 1886.

His brother Joseph Octave Mousseau was also a member of the Canadian House of Commons.

Electoral record

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