Jean Prévost (politician)
Jean Prévost, Liberal from 1900 to 1912 and as an Independent Liberal from 1912 to 1915.
He was born in
Saint-Jérôme. He was managing editor of L'Avenir du Nord from 1902 to 1903. In 1903, he became a King's Counsel
. He was named Minister of colonization, mines and fisheries in the provincial cabinet in 1905. He resigned this post in 1907 after he was accused of corruption, so that he could sue his accusers. Prévost came into conflict with the Liberals over his opposition to the creation of a Canadian navy and later ran as an Independent Liberal.
He died of cancer at Montreal in 1915 while still in office and was buried at Saint-Jérôme.
His cousin, Jules-Édouard Prévost, was a member of the Canadian House of Commons.
External links
- Biography at the Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online
- "Biography". Dictionnaire des parlementaires du Québec de 1792 à nos jours (in French). National Assembly of Quebec.
