- Paul Gouin
Paul Gouin (
May 20 ,1898 –December 4 ,1976 ) was a politician inQuebec ,Canada . was the son ofLomer Gouin and the grandson ofHonoré Mercier . He was born inMontreal .He fought in
World War I as a tank commander, studied atUniversité Laval , and was admitted to the bar of Quebec in 1920.Dissatisfied with the direction of the
Quebec Liberal Party , he helped found theAction libérale nationale party onJune 6 ,1934 . He soon formed an alliance withMaurice Duplessis 'sQuebec Conservative Party to contest the 1935 provincial election. Gouin withdrew his support from Duplessis onJune 18 ,1936 , but most members of the ALN caucus sided with Duplessis and joined with his Conservative caucus to formally merge into the Union Nationale party, which not long afterwards won the 1936 election.He re-formed the
Action libérale nationale and became its leader onJuly 24 ,1938 . However, the ALN did poorly in the 1939 election, winning only 4.5% of the popular vote and no seats, and soon disbanded. He helped found theBloc populaire canadien in 1942, but left it in early 1944 whenAndré Laurendeau was chosen to lead the Quebec wing of the party.ee also
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