Esioff-Léon Patenaude

Ésioff -Léon Patenaude, PC, KC ( born February 12, 1875 in Saint -Isidore, Quebec, † February 7, 1963 in Montreal) was a Canadian politician. He was a deputy in the National Assembly of Quebec and the Canadian House of Commons. From 1915 to 1917, and in 1926 he was a member of the Federal Cabinet. Finally, he served from 1934 to 1939 as Vice- Governor of the Province of Quebec.

Biography

Patenaude studied law at the Université Laval in 1899 and was admitted as a lawyer. First political experience he gathered in Montreal as an organizer of the election campaigns of the Conservative Party of Canada. As a candidate of the Parti conservateur du Québec, he joined in 1908 in the elections to the National Assembly of Quebec, and was successful in the election district of La Prairie; Four years later, he succeeded in re-election.

1915 resigned Patenaude to participate in a by-election in the lower house election Hochelaga. He was elected to the absence of opposition candidates by acclamation, after which Prime Minister Robert Borden took him in the federal cabinet. Patenaude was first minister of domestic taxes, from January 1917 Minister of Mines. In July 1917, he resigned in protest against the government's decision to introduce conscription. At the October elections, he did not present himself.

Patenaude was a candidate in 1923 with success in the constituency Jacques -Cartier to the elections to the National Assembly. Two years later he was again in his resignation to take up to the general election in 1925. Persuaded him had the conservative opposition leader, Arthur Meighen. Patenaude organized the election of the Conservatives in Quebec. But neither he was able to prevail in his constituency nor his party was able zuzulegen in this province. In June 1926 Meighen took over as a result of the King - Byng affair again the government and appointed Patenaude to the Minister of Justice and Attorney General, although he then had no House of mandate. In the subsequent general election in September 1926, the Conservatives suffered losses and Patenaude has not been selected.

Governor General Lord Bessborough sworn Patenaude on May 3, 1934 as Lieutenant Governor of Quebec, on the advice of conservative Prime Minister Richard Bedford Bennett. This representative office he held until December 30, 1939. Then he turned to the business world. He was, among other things, President of the Provincial Bank of Canada, the life insurance company L'Alliance and the Canadian subsidiary of Texaco.