Alphonse Desjardins (politician)
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Alphonse Desjardins, PC (May 6, 1841 – June 4, 1912) was born in Terrebonne, Quebec and was mayor of Montreal from 1893 to 1894 and later a Canadian cabinet minister. He married Virginie Paré in 1864 and remarried Hortense Barsalou in 1880.
He was a lawyer, journalist, businessman and politician. He owned a tile factory and participated in the founding of the Banque Jacques-Cartier, which later became part of the National Bank of Canada. He represented the riding of Hochelaga in the House of Commons for 18 years, serving as a cabinet minister and Minister of Militia and Defence for a few months at the end of the Mackenzie Bowell government and then the short-lived Tupper government in 1896. He was named a senator in 1892. He became mayor of Montreal from 1893–1894. For a time he held all three posts (member of the House of Commons, Senator, mayor) simultaneously.
| Preceded by: James McShane |
Mayor of Montreal 1893-1894 |
Succeeded by: J.-O. Villeneuve |
[edit] External references
- Political biography from the Canadian Library of Parliament
- Biography at the Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online
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