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Joseph-Alfred Mousseau - Definition and Overview |
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Joseph-Alfred Mousseau (July 17 1837 - March 30, 1886), a French-Canadian politician, was born in Sainte-Geneviève-de-Berthier.
Mousseau was first elected to the Canadian House of Commons as a Conservative MP in the 1874 Canadian election 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.
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