Pierre-Joseph-Olivier Chauveau, Biographical Notes

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English: Hon. P. J. O. Chauveau, Montreal, QC, 1863 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Biographical Notes

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This information is available in Wikipedia and in the Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online, but should have been included at the beginning of my blog.

Pierre-Joseph-Olivier Chauveau (May 30, 1820 – April 4, 1890), born in Charlesbourg, near Quebec City, was

the first Premier of the Canadian province of Quebec following the establishment of the Dominion of Canada in 1867;
founder of Confederation;
a lawyer by profession, and practiced in Quebec City;
the co-founder of the Société Saint-Jean-Baptiste of Quebec City in 1842, a nationalistic society that exists to this day.
He was elected to the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada in 1844, and reelected in 1848, 1851, and 1854.
He was solicitor-general of Lower Canada, without a seat in cabinet, from 1851 to 1853;
From 1855 to 1867, he was superintendent of the bureau of Education.
In 1867, he was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Quebec in Québec-Comté electoral district and headed a Conservative government as the first Premier of Quebec.
He was also the Minister of Education and Provincial Secretary.
Also beginning in 1867, he was simultaneously the federal Member of Parliament for the riding of Quebec County (such “double mandates” were abolished in 1874).
He was appointed Speaker of the Canadian Senate on February 21, 1873.
In 1878, he became professor of Roman law at Université Laval.
He was President of the Royal Society of Canada in 1883-1884.
He died April 4 in Quebec City in 1890. He had seven children, one of which, Alexandre Chauveau, became a provincial politician in his own right.

Pierre-Joseph-Olivier Chauveau is also the author of:

Voyage du Prince de Galles [the Prince of Wales] en Amérique;
L’Instruction publique au Canada (Public Education in Canada);[i]
F.-X. Garneau, sa vie et ses œuvres (a biography of historian François Xavier Garneau (This life and times of…);
L’Abbé Holmes et ses conférences de Notre-Dame (Father Holmes and his Notre-Dame Speeches).

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