Onésime Gagnon

Onésime Gagnon, PC (October 23, 1888 – September 30, 1961) was a Canadian politician and lieutenant-governor of Québec.

Born in Saint-Léon-de-Standon, Quebec, the son of Onésime Gagnon and Julie Morin, he was a Rhodes scholar and was called to the Quebec Bar in 1912. In 1930, he was elected to the Canadian House of Commons for the riding of Dorchester. A Conservative, he was re-elected in 1935. In 1935, he was a Minister without Portfolio in the cabinet of R. B. Bennett.

In 1936, he was elected to the Quebec National Assembly in the riding of Matane. A member of the Union Nationale, he was a minister in the cabinet of Maurice Duplessis. Re-elected in 1939, 1944, 1948, 1952, and 1956, he was appointed Lieutenant-Governor of Quebec in 1958 and served until his death in 1961.

From 1942 to 1958, he was a Professor in the Faculty of Law at Université Laval.

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