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Joseph-Adolphe Chapleau

5th Premier of Quebec (1879–1882)

Field	Value
honorific-prefix	The Honourable
name	Sir Joseph-Adolphe Chapleau
honorific-suffix
order2	5th Premier of Quebec
term_start2	October 31, 1879
term_end2	July 29, 1882
predecessor2	Henri-Gustave Joly de Lotbinière
successor2	Joseph-Alfred Mousseau
monarch2	Victoria
lieutenant_governor2	Théodore Robitaille
office4	MLA for Terrebonne
term_start4	September 1, 1867
term_end4	July 29, 1882
predecessor4	Provincial district created in 1867
successor4	Guillaume-Alphonse Nantel
constituency_MP3	Terrebonne
parliament3	Canadian
term_start3	July 29, 1882
term_end3	December 5, 1892
predecessor3	Guillaume-Alphonse Nantel
successor3	Pierre-Julien Leclair
office	7th Lieutenant Governor of Quebec
term_start	December 5, 1892
term_end	January 20, 1898
predecessor	Auguste-Réal Angers
successor	Louis-Amable Jetté
monarch	Victoria
governor_general	The Lord Stanley of Preston
The Earl of Aberdeen
premier	Charles Boucher de Boucherville
Louis-Olivier Taillon
Edmund James Flynn
Félix-Gabriel Marchand
birth_date
birth_place	Sainte-Thérèse, Lower Canada
death_date
death_place	Montreal, Quebec, Canada
party	Conservative Party of Quebec
otherparty	Conservative
spouse
cabinet	Solicitor General (1873–1874)
Minister Without Portfolio (1876–1878)
Provincial Secretary (1876–1878)
Commissioner of Agriculture and Public Works (1879–1881)
Commissioner of Railways (1880–1881)
Secretary of State of Canada (1882–1892)
Minister of Customs (1892)
image	Joseph-Adolphe Chapleau 1869.jpg
caption	Chapleau,

| honorific-prefix = The Honourable | honorific-suffix = The Earl of Aberdeen Louis-Olivier Taillon Edmund James Flynn Félix-Gabriel Marchand Minister Without Portfolio (1876–1878) Provincial Secretary (1876–1878) Commissioner of Agriculture and Public Works (1879–1881) Commissioner of Railways (1880–1881) Secretary of State of Canada (1882–1892) Minister of Customs (1892)| Sir Joseph-Adolphe Chapleau (; November 9, 1840 – June 13, 1898), born in Sainte-Thérèse, Quebec, was a French-Canadian lawyer and politician who served as the 7th Lieutenant Governor of Quebec from 1892 to 1898.

Life

As a lawyer, he defended Ambroise-Dydime Lépine against the charge of murdering Thomas Scott during the Red River Rebellion of 1869–1870.

He served as the fifth premier of Quebec, federal Cabinet minister, and the seventh lieutenant governor of Quebec.

After the 1878 Quebec election, he was the Leader of the Opposition. He became premier in 1879 after the fall of the minority government of Henri-Gustave Joly de Lotbinière. He won the 1881 election, but resigned on July 29, 1882, to seek election to the federal House of Commons. He won a by-election held on August 16, 1882.

Chapleau planned to quit politics in 1885 when Louis Riel was sentenced to be hanged but decided to stay, fearing it would only inflame the situation. After Riel was hanged, he was attacked by Quebecers who accused him of the death of Riel along with John A. Macdonald.

He served as Minister of Justice under prime ministers John A. Macdonald and John Abbott, but declined to serve under John Thompson. He resigned in 1892, and was appointed Lieutenant Governor of Quebec from December 1892 until January 1898. He died in June of that same year in Montreal, Quebec. His funeral monument can be seen at the Notre Dame des Neiges Cemetery.

Elections as party leader

He won the 1881 election.

Family

On November 25, 1874, he married Marie Louise, daughter of Lieutenant-colonel Charles King of Sherbrooke in the province of Quebec.

Legacy

The community of Chapleau, Ontario was named for him.

Electoral record

Note: popular vote is compared to vote in 1882 general election.

References

(n.d.). "Monument funéraire de Joseph-Adolphe Chapleau".
Matt Bray, [https://thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/chapleau "Chapleau"]. ''[[The Canadian Encyclopedia]]'', October 18, 2012.

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