Joseph-Alfred Mousseau

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Joseph-Alfred Mousseau
Joseph-Alfred Mousseau

In office
29 July 1882 – 22 January 1884
Preceded by Joseph-Adolphe Chapleau
Succeeded by John Jones Ross

Born July 18, 1838(1838-07-18)
Sainte-Geneviève-de-Berthier, Lower Canada
Died March 30, 1886 (aged 47)
Montreal
Political party Conservative
Religion Roman Catholic

Joseph-Alfred Mousseau, PC (July 18, 1838March 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.

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Parliament of Canada
Preceded by
Pierre-Samuel Gendron
Member of Parliament for Bagot
1874–1882
Succeeded by
Flavien Dupont
National Assembly of Quebec
Preceded by
Narcisse Lecavalier (Conservative)
MLA, District of Jacques-Cartier
1882-1884
Succeeded by
Arthur Boyer (Liberal)