Gédéon Ouimet
Gedeon Ouimet ( born June 2, 1823 in Sainte- Rose ( now a suburb of Laval (Québec), † April 23, 1905 in Saint- Hilaire ) was a Canadian politician He was the second Prime Minister of the Province of Québec, and reigned 27. February 1873 to 22 September 1874. During this time, he was chairman of the Parti conservateur du Québec. from 1895 until his death he was a member of the Legislative Council of Quebec.
Biography
Gedeon Ouimet was born the 26th child of a farmer. In 1834 he came to the Séminaire de Saint- Hyacinthe and put the school in 1837 at the Petit Séminaire de Montréal continues. He then studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1844.
Ouimet then opened in Saint -Michel -de- Vaudreuil a law firm. In 1850 he married Marie -Jeanne Pellan, with whom he continued the family tradition of children's wealth - seven of her children reached adulthood. In the years 1852-1854 Ouimet officiated in his village as mayor. Then he climbed in Montreal as a partner of an existing firm a, wrote articles for the legal publication Lower Canada jurist and member of the Liberal - Conservative Party. Ouimet joined in 1858 on elections to the lower house of the province of Canada and was in the electoral district of Beauharnois prevail. In the following elections of 1861 he lost, however, and turned back entirely his anwältlichen activity to which he had during his time Parliament never fully abandoned. The first elections to the National Assembly of Quebec in 1867 Ouimet ran as candidate of the Parti conservateur du Québec and was elected by acclamation in the constituency Deux -Montagnes. Pierre -Joseph -Olivier Chauveau, first prime minister of Quebec, took him on as Attorney General in the provincial government. In this position, he exerted a great influence on the legislation.
On February 27, 1873 Ouimet finally stepped up to Chauveau's successor. He also took over the party presidency and practiced parallel to the post of Minister of Education from. First, he tried to continue his predecessor's policies, but the following year he was involved in the Tanneries scandal. The successor Ouimets as Attorney General, George Irvine, and the Speaker of the Legislative Council, John Jones Ross, resigned. Unwilling to take the trouble to search within the English-speaking minority for successors for resigning and to dismiss his entangled in the affair French-speaking ministers, Ouimet wanted to wait until the return of his treasurer Joseph Gibb Robertson. Meanwhile, then also successful resignation prompted him on September 22, 1874 final to give up his office, and was succeeded by Charles -Eugène Boucher de Boucherville.
Ouimet remained as a member of Parliament, and practiced again his learned profession. In the elections of 1875 he entered turn to for the electoral district of Deux- Montagnes and has secured by his victory to remain in Parliament. The entrusted with the investigation of the Tanneries scandal judge acquitted him in person free of any guilt. Ouimet was the function of the Superintendent in the Conseil de l'instruction (English Council of Public Instruction ), which is responsible for the state schools Council, entrusted. In 1895, the provincial government approved his request to retire on grounds of age from that office, he remained a member of the Council.
Ouimet was in the same year a member of the Legislative Council, its predecessor now took his old position of Superintendent. Ouimet died in 1905 age of 81 after a long illness at his son Gustave house and was buried in the cemetery of Notre- Dame-des- Neiges in Montreal.