Ulric-Joseph Tessier

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The Hon. Ulric-Joseph Tessier

Senator for Gulf, Quebec
In office October 23, 1867 – February 11, 1873
Appointed by	Royal Proclamation
Succeeded by	Eugène Chinic
Personal details
Born	(1817-05-03)May 3, 1817 Quebec City, Lower Canada
Died	April 7, 1892(1892-04-07) (aged 74) Quebec City, Quebec
Political party	Liberal

Ulric-Joseph Tessier (May 3, 1817 – April 7, 1892) was a Quebec lawyer, judge, seigneur and political figure. He was a member of the Senate of Canada representing the Gulf division from 1867 to 1873 and served as mayor of Quebec City from 1853 to 1854.

He was born Joseph-Ulric Tessier in Quebec City in 1817 and studied at the Petit Séminaire de Québec. He articled in law with Hector-Simon Huot and was admitted to the bar in 1839. Tessier was elected to city council in 1846. The following year, he married Marguerite-Adèle Kelly, heiress to the seigneury of Rimouski. In 1851, he was elected to the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada for Portneuf. He helped found the North Shore Railway in 1853 and, in 1858, the Banque Nationale, serving as its first president. He was part of a group that lobbied for Quebec City as the capital of Canada in London in 1857. Tessier was a professor in the faculty of law at the Université Laval. In 1858, he was elected to the Legislative Council for the Gulf division; he served as Minister of Public Works in the Executive Council from 1862 to 1863. Tessier was speaker for the Legislative Council from 1863 until Confederation, when he was appointed to the Senate. He was named Queen's Counsel in 1863. In 1869, his wife inherited the seigneury of Rimouski after the death of her mother; Tessier also purchased the seigneuries of Le Bic, Saint-Fabien, Saint-Simon, Saint-Mathieu, Trois-Pistoles and part of Île-d’Orléans. In 1873, Tessier resigned from the Senate to become a judge in the Quebec Superior Court in Quebec district; in 1875, he was named to the Court of Queen's Bench.

His published works included:

Emma ou l’amour malheureux, a story based on the cholera epidemic at Quebec City that appeared in the city newspaper Le Télégraphe in 1837
Essai sur le commerce et l'industrie du Bas-Canada, a study on the Quebec economy published in 1854

He died in Quebec City in 1892 and was buried in the Cimetière Notre-Dame-de-Belmont.

One son, Auguste, later served in the Quebec assembly and as a judge; another, Jules, served in the Quebec assembly and the Canadian Senate.

References

External links

"Ulric-Joseph Tessier". Dictionary of Canadian Biography (online ed.). University of Toronto Press. 1979–2005. Check date values in: |date= (help)
"Biography". Dictionnaire des parlementaires du Québec de 1792 à nos jours (in French). National Assembly of Quebec.

Ulric-Joseph Tessier – Parliament of Canada biography
"Tessier, Ulric Joseph". Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography. 1889

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Persondata
Name	Tessier, Ulric-Joseph
Alternative names
Short description	Canadian politician
Date of birth	May 3, 1817
Place of birth	Quebec City, Lower Canada
Date of death	April 7, 1892
Place of death	Quebec City, Quebec

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