Joseph Israël Tarte
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The Hon. Joseph-Israël Tarte |
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| Member of the Canadian Parliament for Montmorency |
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In office 1891–1892 |
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| Preceded by | Louis-Georges Desjardins |
| Succeeded by | Arthur Joseph Turcotte |
| Member of the Canadian Parliament for L'Islet |
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In office 1893–1896 |
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| Preceded by | Louis-Georges Desjardins |
| Succeeded by | Alphonse-Arthur Miville Déchêne |
| Member of the Canadian Parliament for St. Johns—Iberville |
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In office 1896–1900 |
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| Preceded by | François Béchard |
| Succeeded by | Louis Philippe Demers |
| Member of the Canadian Parliament for St. Mary |
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In office 1900–1904 |
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| Preceded by | Hercule Dupré |
| Succeeded by | Camille Piché |
| Member of the Legislative Assembly of Quebec for Bonaventure | |
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In office 1877–1881 |
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| Preceded by | Pierre-Clovis Beauchesne |
| Succeeded by | Louis-Joseph Riopel |
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January 11, 1848 Lanoraie, Canada East |
| Died | December 18, 1907 (aged 59) Montreal, Quebec |
Joseph-Israël Tarte, PC (January 11, 1848 – December 18, 1907) was a Canadian politician and journalist.
Tarte came to prominence as editor of several newspapers, Le Canadien, L'Événement, La Patrie and the Quebec Daily Mercury. He was initially a follower of Sir George-Étienne Cartier before hardening into a conservative ultramontanist supporter of Church intervention into politics but later became a Liberal and a critic of the Church.
In 1876, Tarte was in charge of the campaign to elect Hector Langevin to parliament and supported, in his published articles, the clergy's intervention in the by-election. Langevin was Cartier's successor as Quebec lieutenant to Sir John A. Macdonald and de facto leader of the federal Conservative Party in French Canada. A Supreme Court of Canada decision declared that sermons by the clergy during the by-election campaign had played an intimidating role termed influence indue spirituelle or "undue spiritual influence" - thus the court overturned the vote and called a new by-election which Langevin won by a reduced margin.
Tarte himself sat as a member of the Quebec legislative assembly from 1877 to 1881 in the riding of Bonaventure and made moderate Conservative Joseph-Adolphe Chapleau, Langevin's rival, a frequent target of both speeches and editorials. He was also charged with organizing the federal Conservative Party's campaign in the Quebec City region for the 1878 federal election
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