Joseph-Adolphe Chapleau

Joseph-Adolphe Chapleau

5th Premier of Quebec
In office 31 October 1879 – 29 July 1882
Preceded by	Henri-Gustave Joly de Lotbinière
Succeeded by	Joseph-Alfred Mousseau

Born	November 9, 1840 Sainte-Thérèse
Died	June 13 1898 (aged 57) Montreal
Political party	Conservative
Religion	Roman Catholic

Sir Joseph-Adolphe Chapleau, PC (9 November 1840 – 13 June 1898), born in Sainte-Thérèse, Quebec, was a French-Canadian lawyer and politician.

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

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.

He served as cabinet minister 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.

[edit] Elections as party leader

	Lieutenant-Governors of Quebec
Post-Confederation (1867-present) Belleau \| Caron \| Saint-Just \| Robitaille \| Masson \| Angers \| Chapleau \| Jetté \| Pelletier \| Langelier \| Leblanc \| Fitzpatrick \| Brodeur \| Pérodeau \| Gouin \| Carroll \| Patenaude \| Fiset \| Fauteux \| Gagnon \| Comtois \| Lapointe \| Côté \| Lamontagne \| Asselin \| Roux \| Thibault Province of Canada (1841-1866) Clitherow \| Jackson \| Bagot \| Fernhill \| Cathcart \| Elgin \| Head \| Monck Lower Canada (1791-1841) Prescott \| Milnes \| Dunn \| Craig \| Prevost \| Drummond \| Wilson \| Sherbrooke \| Richmond \| Dalhousie \| Aylmer \| Gosford \| Colborne \| Durham \| Sydenham