Alexandre Taschereau
| The Honourable Louis-Alexandre Taschereau |
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| 14th Premier of Quebec | |
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In office July 8, 1920 – June 11, 1936 |
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| Monarch |
George V Edward VIII |
| Lieutenant Governor |
Charles Fitzpatrick Louis-Philippe Brodeur Narcisse Pérodeau Lomer Gouin Henry George Carroll Esioff-Léon Patenaude |
| Preceded by | Lomer Gouin |
| Succeeded by | Adélard Godbout |
| MNA for Montmorency | |
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In office December 7, 1900 – August 17, 1936 |
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| Preceded by | Édouard Bouffard |
| Succeeded by | Joseph-Félix Roy |
| Personal details | |
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March 5, 1867 Quebec City, Quebec |
| Died | July 6, 1952 (aged 85) Quebec City, Quebec |
| Political party | Liberal |
| Spouse(s) | Marie-Emma-Adine Dionne (m. 1891) |
| Profession | Lawyer |
| Religion | Roman Catholic |
Louis-Alexandre Taschereau (French pronunciation: [taʃʁo]; March 5, 1867 – July 6, 1952) was the 14th Premier of the Canadian province of Quebec from 1920 to 1936. He was elected four times, the first in 1900, in the riding of Montmorency. He was also a member of the Parti libéral du Québec.
Born in Quebec City, Quebec, the son of Jean-Thomas Taschereau, lawyer and judge at the Supreme Court, and Marie-Louise-Joséphine Caron.
He received a law degree from Université Laval and was admitted to the Barreau du Quebec on July 9, 1889. After entering political life, he served as chief lieutenant in the Liberal government of Sir Lomer Gouin. He practised his profession in the law firm of Charles Fitzpatrick and Simon-Napoléon Parent. He was also journalist at the Action Libérale and president and vice-president of the Banque d'Economie de Québec.
A Member of the Legislative Assembly from 1900 onwards, he served as Premier Lomer Gouin's Minister of Public Works from 1907 to 1919. Elected Premier in 1920, at a time when the North American economy began experiencing difficulties that ultimately led to the Great Depression, he opposed U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal social democratic policies, saying he could not tell if it was fascism or communism. Instead, he vigorously encouraged the development by private enterprise of the massive forests and the mineral resources of what had been the Ungava Region and Nunavik that the Parliament of Canada had added to the Province of Quebec.
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