Joseph-Ernest Gregoire: French Canadian Politician

Joseph-Ernest Gregoire (July 31, 1886 – September 17, 1980) was a French Canadian ^[1]

Joseph-Ernest Gregoire
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politician.

He was born in Disraeli, Quebec on July 31, 1886. He was an attorney and a professor. He
also was the father of Gilles Grégoire, a co-founder of the Parti Québécois.

Gregoire ran for mayor in Quebec City in 1934 and won, defeating Oscar Drouin. His term of office ended in 1938.
 
He was elected as the Action libérale nationale candidate to the Legislative Assembly of Quebec in 1935 in the riding of Montmagny. He was re-elected in 1936 as the Union Nationale candidate.

In 1937, he and colleagues René Chaloult, Oscar Drouin, Philippe Hamel and Adolphe Marcoux left the Union Nationale. They founded a short-lived party that was called Parti national.^[2] Gregoire did not run for re-election in 1939.

Cardinal Villeneuve, Mgr Camille Roy, Georges-Henri Lévesque & J.-Ernest Gregoire, 1938 at Palais Montcalm in Quebec City, at the announcement of the founding of the School of Social Sciences at Laval University
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In 1934, Gregoire was made a Chevalier of the Légion d'honneur. In 1935, he was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire. Member of the Barreau du Quebec in 1913, he practiced law from 1938 to 1966.


He died on September 17, 1980.

 References

1. "Biography". Dictionnaire des parlementaires du Québec de 1792 à nos jours (in French). National Assembly of Quebec.
2. Chronologie parlementaire depuis 1791 (1937-1939)

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Alteration:  Gregoire is used without the accent aigu.