THE POLITICAL POWER

• 15 November 1948 - 21 June 1957

BORN

• 1 Febuary 1882, Compton, Quebec

EDUCATION

• Laval University (Law)

PERSONAL STATUS

• Married 1908, Jeanne Renault (1886 - 1966)
• Two suns, three daughters

OCCUPATION

• Lawyer
• 1914 Professor of Law, Laval University
• 1929 Bâtonnier of the Quebec Bar
• 1930 - 1932 President of the Canadian Bar Association
• 1937 - 1940 Counsel to Rowell-Sirois Commission on Dominion-Provincial Relations

PARTY

• Liberal
• 1948 - 1958 Party Leader

CONSTITUENCIES

• 1942 - 1958 Quebec East, Quebec

OTHER MINISTRIES

• 1941 - 1946, 1948 Justice
• 1946, 1948 External Affairs

POLITICAL RECORD

• Trans-Canada Highway Act 1949
• Promoted Canada's membership in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) 1949
• Welcomed Newfoundland into Confederation 1949
• Canadian participation in the Korean War 1950 - 1953
• Appointed Vincent Massey first Canadian-born Governor General 1952
• Start of construction of the St. Lawrence Seaway 1954
• Equalization payments 1956
• Canada Council established 1957

DIED

• 25 July 1973, Quebec City, Quebec

BURIED

• Cemetery of St. Thomas Aquinas, Compton, Quebec