Jérôme Choquette
| Jérôme Choquette | |
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| MNA for Outremont | |
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In office 1966–1976 |
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| Preceded by | first member |
| Succeeded by | André Raynauld |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
January 25, 1928 Montreal, Quebec |
| Political party | Liberal |
Jérôme Choquette (born January 25, 1928) is a lawyer and politician in Quebec, Canada. Presently Choquette runs a private law practice, representing various claimants in a wide range of cases from his office on Avenue du Parc, downtown Montreal.
Choquette was born in Montreal, Quebec, and studied at the Notre-Dame-de-Grâce Academy and Collège Stanislas in Montreal, a Roman Catholic private school considered an elite institution in Quebec. He graduated from McGill University with a law degree in 1949, and was called to the Bar of Quebec in the same year. In 1951, he obtained a doctorate in economics from the Paris Law School in Paris, France. He also studied at the School of Business Administration at Columbia University in New York City.
He practised law in Montreal beginning in 1951 and was given the honorary title of Queen's Counsel in 1963.
In the 1966 provincial election, he was elected to the National Assembly of Quebec from the riding of Outremont in Montreal as a member of the Quebec Liberal Party. He was re-elected in the 1970 and 1973 elections.
In the Liberal government of Robert Bourassa, he served as Minister of Financial Institutions from May to October 1970, Minister of Justice from May 1970 to July 1975, and Minister of Education from July to September 1975, when he resigned from the Liberal Party.
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