Charles Boucher de Boucherville

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Narcisse Fortunat Belleau
Personal details
Born(1822-05-04)May 4, 1822
Conservative Party of Canada
Spouse(s)Susan Elizabeth Morrogh
Marie-Céleste-Esther Lussier

Sir Charles-Eugène-Napoléon Boucher de Boucherville

KCMG (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

Leader of the Opposition, Henri-Gustave Joly de Lotbinière
, to form a government.

Boucher de Boucherville's second term came about after

Lieutenant Governor Auguste-Réal Angers
on December 16, 1891, on charges of corruption. Mercier was later cleared.

After Conservative leader

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.

See also

External links and references

  • Munro, Kenneth (1998). "Boucher de Boucherville, Sir Charles". In Cook, Ramsay; Hamelin, Jean (eds.). Dictionary of Canadian Biography. Vol. XIV (1911–1920) (online ed.). University of Toronto Press.
  • "Biography". Dictionnaire des parlementaires du Québec de 1792 à nos jours (in French). National Assembly of Quebec.
  • Charles Boucher de Boucherville – Parliament of Canada biography
  • "Senator de Boucherville Dies at 95". The New York Times. September 12, 1915. p. 17.
Political offices
Preceded by MLA, District of Chambly
1861–1867 		Succeeded by
National Assembly of Quebec
Preceded by Legislative Councillor, District of Montarville
1867–1915 		Succeeded by
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