Joseph-Alfred Mousseau

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name = Joseph-Alfred Mousseau
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order = 6th Premier of Quebec
term_start = 29 July 1882
term_end = 22 January 1884
predecessor = Joseph-Adolphe Chapleau
successor = John Jones Ross
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birth_place = Sainte-Geneviève-de-Berthier, Lower Canada
death_date = death date and age|1886|03|30|1838|07|18
death_place = Montreal
party = Conservative
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religion = Roman Catholic
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Joseph-Alfred Mousseau, PC (July 18 1838 – March 30, 1886), was a French Canadian politician.

Born in Sainte-Geneviève-de-Berthier, Lower Canada, Mousseau was first elected to the Canadian House of Commons as a Conservative Member of Parliament in the 1874 election for the riding of Bagot, and was re-elected three times. In 1880, he was elevated to the Cabinet of Prime Minister Sir John A. Macdonald, serving first as president of the Queen's Privy Council of Canada, and then as Secretary of State for Canada.

Mousseau left federal politics to become the Conservative Premier of the province of Quebec from July 31, 1882, until his resignation on January 22, 1884, after being appointed as a judge. He died in Montreal in 1886.

ee also

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

References

* [http://www.biographi.ca/009004-119.01-e.php?&id_nbr=5724 Biography at the "Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online"]
* [http://www.parl.gc.ca/information/about/people/key/bio.asp?lang=E&query=16916&s=M Political biography from the Library of Parliament]
* [http://www.assnat.qc.ca/fra/membres/notices/m-n/MOUSJA.htm National Assembly biography] fr icon

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before=Pierre-Samuel Gendron
title=Member of Parliament for Bagot
years=1874–1882
after=Flavien Dupont