Antonin Galipeault

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Antonin Galipeault (7 August 1879 in Maskinongé - 12 May 1971 in Québec) was a québécois politican, lawyer and judge .

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Antonin Galipeault studied at a seminary in Joliette and at Université Laval, later entering the Bar of Quebec in 1900.

He worked as a lawyer alongside Joseph-Napoléon Francoeur and Louis Saint-Laurent and later became president of the société Saint-Jean-Baptiste de Québec. After a first tentative role as provincial deputy in 1904, he became municipal councillor for Québec City.

He was elected deputy of Bellechasse in 1909, and was re-elected in 1912, 1916, 1919, 1923 and 1927. He was notably President of the National Assembly of Quebec from 1916 to 1919 and minister of public works under Louis-Alexandre Taschereau.

He left political life in 1930 to become chief judge of the bench of the king's court. While the post of Lieutenant Governor of Quebec was free between 1950 and 1953, he administered the province of Québec.

He retired in 1963, and died in Québec on 12 May 1971. The Galipeault bridge in Grande-Vallée is named in his honour. He received an honourary doctorate from Université Laval in 1925.

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