Louis-Amable Jetté

Sir Louis- Amable Jetté, KCMG, QC ( born January 15, 1836 in L' Assomption, Lower Canada; † May 5, 1920 in Quebec ) was a Canadian politician, judge and legal scholar. He was from 1873 to 1878 of liberal deputies in the House from 1898 to 1908, he served as Vice- Governor of the Province of Quebec.

Biography

Jetté studied law at the Université Laval in Montreal in 1857 and was admitted as a lawyer. He worked in the offices of Senators Hector Fabre and Frédéric Liguori Beique. As a candidate of the Liberal Party of Canada, he took up to the general election in 1872 and sat for the constituency Montréal- Est against the conservative defense minister George-Étienne Cartier by. Two years later he succeeded in re-election.

1878 target Jetté no re-election and resigned as deputy, after which he was appointed a judge of the Supreme Court of the Province of Québec. In the same year he took over at the Université Laval chair of civil law. From 1890 he was Dean of the Law Faculty of the University. Governor General Lord Aberdeen sworn him on 1 February 1898 as the Lieutenant Governor of Quebec. This representative office he held until 15 September 1908. Then he was up again in 1911 served as a judge.