Paul Gouin
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| Born | May 20, 1898 Montreal, Quebec, Canada |
| Died | December 4, 1976 (aged 78) Montreal, Quebec |
| Occupation | politician |
Paul Gouin (May 20, 1898 – December 4, 1976) was a politician in Quebec, Canada, was the son of Sir Lomer Gouin and the grandson of Premier Honoré Mercier.
Life and career
He was born in
bar of Quebec
in 1920.
Dissatisfied with the direction of the Quebec Liberal Party, he helped found the Action libérale nationale party on June 6, 1934. He soon formed an alliance with Maurice Duplessis's Quebec Conservative Party to contest the 1935 provincial election. Gouin withdrew his support from Duplessis on June 18, 1936, but most members of the ALN caucus sided with Duplessis and joined with his Conservative caucus, which formally merged into the Union Nationale party, which not long afterwards won the 1936 election.
He re-formed the
Madame Athanase David as the President of the Montreal Festivals
, a post he held through 1956.
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Paul Gouin
See also
- Politics of Quebec
- Quebec general elections
- Timeline of Quebec history
External links
- "Biography". Dictionnaire des parlementaires du Québec de 1792 à nos jours (in French). National Assembly of Quebec.
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