Louis-Olivier Taillon

Sir Louis-Olivier Taillon, PC (September 26, 1840 – April 25, 1923) was born in Terrebonne, Quebec. He twice served as Conservative Premier of the Canadian province of Quebec.

Taillon's first term of office was just four days, from January 25 to January 29, 1887. This term came at the end of the Conservative government of his predecessor John Jones Ross. Ross had lost the 1886 Quebec election, but had tried to cling to power in a minority government for a few more months.

Taillon was Leader of the Opposition from 1887 until 1890, when he lost the 1890 election and his own seat.

He briefly returned to the practice of law, but following the removal of Liberal Honoré Mercier from office by the Lieutenant-Governor of Quebec, Taillon became minister without portfolio in the government of Charles-Eugène Boucher de Boucherville. Taillon became premier when Boucher de Boucherville resigned.

He resigned in 1896 and moved into federal politics to serve as Postmaster-General in the very short-lived federal Conservative government of Charles Tupper, from May to July 1896. He failed to gain a federal seat in the 1896 federal election, and likewise failed to secure a seat in the 1900 federal election, ending his political career. In 1916, he was made a Knight Bachelor. He died in Montreal in 1923.

Elections as party leader

He lost the 1890 election.

ee also

*Politics of Quebec
*List of Quebec general elections
*Timeline of Quebec history

External links

* [http://www.biographi.ca/009004-119.01-e.php?&id_nbr=7975 Biography at the "Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online"]
* [http://www.assnat.qc.ca/fra/membres/notices/t-u/TAILLO.htm National Assembly biography] (in French)

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