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25th Quebec Legislature

The 25th Legislative Assembly of Quebec was the Quebec, Canada, provincial political legislature that existed from June 20, 1956, and June 22, 1960. The Union Nationale was the governing party for the fourth consecutive mandate. It was also Maurice Duplessis last term as Premier of Quebec. He died in office in 1959 and was succeeded in less than a year by Paul Sauvé and former cabinet Minister Antonio Barrette after Sauvé died less than four months after being sworn as Premier.

Seats per political party

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! colspan="2" | Affiliation

! Members

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| 72

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| 20

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| 1

colspan="2" rowspan="1" align=left|  Total

| 93

colspan="2" rowspan="1" align=left|  Government Majority

| 52

Member list

This was the list of members of the Legislative Assembly of Quebec that were elected in the 1956 election:

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!Name

!Party

!Riding

!First elected / previously elected

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|Jacques Miquelon

|Union Nationale

|Abitibi-Est

|1948

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|Alcide Courcy

|Libéral

|Abitibi-Ouest

|1956

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|William McOuat Cottingham

|Union Nationale

|Argenteuil

|1948

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|Wilfrid Labbé

|Union Nationale

|Arthabaska

|1948

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|Daniel Johnson

|Union Nationale

|Bagot

|1946

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|Georges-Octave Poulin

|Union Nationale

|Beauce

|1945

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|Edgar Hébert

|Union Nationale

|Beauharnois

|1948

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|Alphée Poirier

|Union Nationale

|Bellechasse

|1952

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|Azellus Lavallée

|Union Nationale

|Berthier

|1948

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|Gérard D. Levesque

|Libéral

|Bonaventure

|1956

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|Glendon Brown

|Libéral

|Brome

|1956

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|Robert Théberge

|Libéral

|Chambly

|1956

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|Maurice Bellemare

|Union Nationale

|Champlain

|1944

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|Arthur Leclerc

|Union Nationale

|Charlevoix

|1936, 1944

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|Arthur Laberge

|Union Nationale

|rowspan=2|Châteauguay

|1948

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|Joseph-Maurice Laberge (1957)

|Union Nationale

|1957

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|Antonio Talbot

|Union Nationale

|Chicoutimi

|1938

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|Fabien Gagnon

|Libéral

|rowspan=2|Compton

|1956

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|Claude-Gilles Gosselin (1957)

|Union Nationale

|1957

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|Paul Sauvé

|Union Nationale

|Deux-Montagnes

|1930, 1936

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|Joseph-Damase Bégin

|Union Nationale

|Dorchester

|1935

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|Robert Bernard

|Union Nationale

|Drummond

|1944, 1956

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|Éloi Guillemette

|Union Nationale

|Frontenac

|1956

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|Alphonse Couturier

|Union Nationale

|Gaspé-Nord

|1952

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|Camille-Eugène Pouliot

|Union Nationale

|Gaspé-Sud

|1936

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|Gérard Desjardins

|Union Nationale

|Gatineau

|1948

{{Canadian party colour|QC|Liberal|row}}

|Oswald Parent

|Libéral

|Hull

|1956

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|Henry Somerville

|Union Nationale

|Huntingdon

|1952

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|Yvon Thuot

|Union Nationale

|Iberville

|1944

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|Hormisdas Langlais

|Union Nationale

|Îles-de-la-Madeleine

|1936

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|Charles-Aimé Kirkland

|Libéral

|Jacques-Cartier

|1939

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|Antonio Barrette

|Union Nationale

|Joliette

|1936

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|Léonce Ouellet

|Union Nationale

|Jonquière-Kénogami

|1956

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|Alfred Plourde

|Union Nationale

|Kamouraska

|1948

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|Albiny Paquette

|Union Nationale

|rowspan=3|Labelle

|1935

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|Pierre Bohémier (1958)

|Union Nationale

|1958

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|Fernand Lafontaine (1959)

|Union Nationale

|1959

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|Antonio Auger

|Union Nationale

|rowspan=2|Lac-Saint-Jean

|1948

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|Jean-Paul Levasseur (1959)

|Union Nationale

|1959

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|Victor-Stanislas Chartrand

|Union Nationale

|L'Assomption

|1944

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|Léopold Pouliot

|Union Nationale

|Laval

|1956

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|Charles Romulus Ducharme

|Union Nationale

|Laviolette

|1935, 1944

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|Albert Samson

|Union Nationale

|Lévis

|1949, 1956

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|Fernand Lizotte

|Union Nationale

|L'Islet

|1948

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|René Bernatchez

|Union Nationale

|Lotbinière

|1948

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|Lucien Tremblay

|Union Nationale

|Maisonneuve

|1956

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|Germain Caron

|Union Nationale

|Maskinongé

|1944

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|Onésime Gagnon

|Union Nationale

|rowspan=2|Matane

|1936

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|Benoît Gaboury (1958)

|Union Nationale

|1958

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|J-Clovis Gagnon

|Union Nationale

|Matapédia

|1953

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|Tancrède Labbé

|Union Nationale

|rowspan=2|Mégantic

|1935, 1940

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|Joseph-Émile Fortin (1957)

|Union Nationale

|1957

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|Jean-Jacques Bertrand

|Union Nationale

|Missisquoi

|1948

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|Maurice Tellier

|Union Nationale

|Montcalm

|1936, 1944

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|Antoine Rivard

|Union Nationale

|Montmagny

|1948

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|Yves Prévost

|Union Nationale

|Montmorency

|1948

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|Maurice-Tréflé Custeau

|Union Nationale

|Montréal–Jeanne-Mance

|1956

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|Arsène Gagné

|Union Nationale

|Montréal-Laurier

|1955

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|Gérard Thibeault

|Union Nationale

|Montréal-Mercier

|1936, 1948

{{Canadian party colour|QC|Liberal|row}}

|Paul Earl

|Libéral

|Montréal–Notre-Dame-de-Grâce

|1948

{{Canadian party colour|QC|Liberal|row}}

|Georges-Émile Lapalme

|Libéral

|Montréal-Outremont

|1953

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|Francis Hanley

|Independent

|Montréal–Sainte-Anne

|1948

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|Edgar Charbonneau

|Union Nationale

|Montréal–Sainte-Marie

|1956

{{Canadian party colour|QC|Liberal|row}}

|Philippe Lalonde

|Libéral

|Montréal–Saint-Henri

|1952

{{Canadian party colour|QC|UN|row}}

|Paul Dozois

|Union Nationale

|Montréal–Saint-Jacques

|1956

{{Canadian party colour|QC|Liberal|row}}

|rowspan=2|Dave Rochon

|Libéral

|rowspan=2|Montréal–Saint-Louis

|rowspan=2|1948

{{Canadian party colour|QC|Independent|row}}

|Independent

{{Canadian party colour|QC|Liberal|row}}

|rowspan=2|Lionel-Alfred Ross

|Libéral

|rowspan=2|Montréal-Verdun

|rowspan=2|1944

{{Canadian party colour|QC|Independent|row}}

|Independent

{{Canadian party colour|QC|UN|row}}

|Hercule Riendeau

|Union Nationale

|Napierville-Laprairie

|1944

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|Camille Roy

|Union Nationale

|Nicolet

|1952

{{Canadian party colour|QC|UN|row}}

|Roméo Lorrain

|Union Nationale

|Papineau

|1935

{{Canadian party colour|QC|UN|row}}

|Raymond Thomas Johnston

|Union Nationale

|Pontiac

|1948

{{Canadian party colour|QC|UN|row}}

|Rosaire Chalifour

|Union Nationale

|Portneuf

|1953

{{Canadian party colour|QC|UN|row}}

|Maurice Cloutier

|Union Nationale

|Québec-Centre

|1952

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|Émilien Rochette

|Union Nationale

|Québec-Comté

|1956

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|Armand Maltais

|Union Nationale

|Québec-Est

|1956

{{Canadian party colour|QC|Liberal|row}}

|Jean-Paul Galipeault

|Libéral

|Québec-Ouest

|1956

{{Canadian party colour|QC|UN|row}}

|Bernard Gagné

|Union Nationale

|Richelieu

|1948, 1956

{{Canadian party colour|QC|Liberal|row}}

|Émilien Lafrance

|Libéral

|Richmond

|1952

{{Canadian party colour|QC|Liberal|row}}

|Albert Dionne

|Libéral

|Rimouski

|1956

{{Canadian party colour|QC|Liberal|row}}

|Alphonse Couturier

|Libéral

|Rivière-du-Loup

|1956

{{Canadian party colour|QC|UN|row}}

|Paul-Henri Spence

|Union Nationale

|rowspan=2|Roberval

|1956

{{Canadian party colour|QC|UN|row}}

|Jean-Joseph Turcotte (1958)

|Union Nationale

|1958

{{Canadian party colour|QC|UN|row}}

|Laurent Barré

|Union Nationale

|Rouville

|1931, 1944

{{Canadian party colour|QC|Liberal|row}}

|Edgar Turpin

|Libéral

|Rouyn-Noranda

|1956

{{Canadian party colour|QC|UN|row}}

|Pierre Ouellet

|Union Nationale

|Saguenay

|1948

{{Canadian party colour|QC|Liberal|row}}

|René Saint-Pierre

|Libéral

|Saint-Hyacinthe

|1956

{{Canadian party colour|QC|UN|row}}

|Jean-Paul Beaulieu

|Union Nationale

|Saint-Jean

|1941

{{Canadian party colour|QC|Liberal|row}}

|René Hamel

|Libéral

|Saint-Maurice

|1952

{{Canadian party colour|QC|UN|row}}

|Francis Boudreau

|Union Nationale

|Saint-Sauveur

|1948

{{Canadian party colour|QC|UN|row}}

|Armand Russell

|Union Nationale

|Shefford

|1956

{{Canadian party colour|QC|UN|row}}

|John Samuel Bourque

|Union Nationale

|Sherbrooke

|1935

{{Canadian party colour|QC|UN|row}}

|Léon-Denis Gérin

|Union Nationale

|Stanstead

|1948

{{Canadian party colour|QC|UN|row}}

|Joseph-André Larouche

|Union Nationale

|Témiscamingue

|1956

{{Canadian party colour|QC|UN|row}}

|Antoine Raymond

|Union Nationale

|Témiscouata

|1952

{{Canadian party colour|QC|UN|row}}

|Joseph-Léonard Blanchard

|Union Nationale

|Terrebonne

|1944

{{Canadian party colour|QC|UN|row}}

|Maurice Duplessis

|Union Nationale

|Trois-Rivières

|1927

{{Canadian party colour|QC|UN|row}}

|Joseph-Édouard Jeannotte

|Union Nationale

|rowspan=2|Vaudreuil-Soulanges

|1948

{{Canadian party colour|QC|UN|row}}

|Loyola Schmidt (1957)

|Union Nationale

|1957

{{Canadian party colour|QC|UN|row}}

|Clodomir Ladouceur

|Union Nationale

|Verchères

|1956

{{Canadian party colour|QC|Liberal|row}}

|John Richard Hyde

|Libéral

|Westmount–Saint-Georges

|1955

{{Canadian party colour|QC|UN|row}}

|Henri Vachon

|Union Nationale

|Wolfe

|1936, 1944, 1956

{{Canadian party colour|QC|UN|row}}

|Antonio Élie

|Union Nationale

|Yamaska

|1931

Other elected MLAs

Other MLAs were elected in by-elections during this mandate

  • Joseph-Maurice Laberge, Union Nationale, Chateauguay, September 18, 1957 [http://www.quebecpolitique.com/election/comtes/c-chateauguay.html#1957p]
  • Claude-Gilles Gosselin, Union Nationale, Compton, September 18, 1957 [http://www.quebecpolitique.com/election/comtes/c-compton.html#1957p]
  • Joseph-Émile Fortin, Union Nationale, Mégantic, September 18, 1957 [http://www.quebecpolitique.com/election/comtes/c-megantic.html#1957p]
  • Loyola Schmidt, Union Nationale, Vaudreuil-Soulanges, September 18, 1957 [http://www.quebecpolitique.com/election/comtes/c-vaudreuil-soulanges.html#1957p]
  • Benoît Gaboury, Union Nationale, Matane, July 2, 1958 [http://www.quebecpolitique.com/election/comtes/c-matane.html#1958p]
  • Pierre Bohémier, Union Nationale, Labelle, October 15, 1958 [http://www.quebecpolitique.com/election/comtes/c-labelle.html#1958p]
  • Jean-Joseph Turcotte, Union Nationale, Roberval, October 15, 1958 [http://www.quebecpolitique.com/election/comtes/c-roberval.html#1958p]
  • Fernand Lafontaine, Union Nationale, Labelle, September 16, 1959 [http://www.quebecpolitique.com/election/comtes/c-labelle.html#1959p]
  • Jean-Paul Levasseur, Union Nationale, Lac-Saint-Jean, September 16, 1959 [http://www.quebecpolitique.com/election/comtes/c-lac-saint-jean.html#1959p]

Cabinet Ministers

=Duplessis Cabinet (1956-1959)=

  • Prime Minister and Executive Council President: Maurice Duplessis
  • Agriculture: Laurent Barrée
  • Colonization: Joseph-Damase Begin
  • Labour: Antonio Barrette
  • Public Works: Roméo Lorrain
  • Social Welfare and Youth: Paul Sauvé
  • Health: Albiny Paquette (1956–1958), Arthur Leclerc (1958–1959)
  • Lands and Forests: John Samuel Bourque (1956–1958), Jean-Jacques Bertrand (1958–1959)
  • Hunting and Coastal Fisheries: Camille-Eugène Pouliot (1956–1958)
  • Fisheries and Hunting: Camille-Eugene Pouliot (1958–1959)
  • Mines: William McOuat Cottingham
  • Hydraulic resources: John Samuel Bourque (1956–1958), Daniel Johnson Sr. (1958–1959)
  • Roads: Antonio Talbot
  • Transportation and Communications: Antoine Rivard
  • Municipal Affairs: Yves Prevost (1956), Paul Dozois (1956–1959)
  • Industry and Commerce: Jean-Paul Beaulieu
  • Attorney General: Maurice Duplessis
  • Provincial Secretary: Romeo Lorrain (1956), Yves Prevost (1956–1959)
  • Solicitor General: Antoine Rivard
  • Finances: Onésime Gagnon (1956), John Samuel Bourque (1958–1959)
  • State Ministers: Gerard Thibeault (1958–1959)

=Sauve Cabinet (1959-1960)=

  • Prime Minister and Executive Council President: Paul Sauve
  • Agriculture: Laurent Barrée
  • Colonization: Joseph-Damase Begin
  • Labour: Antonio Barrette
  • Public Works: Roméo Lorrain
  • Social Welfare and Youth: Paul Sauvé
  • Health: Arthur Leclerc
  • Lands and Forests: Jean-Jacques Bertrand
  • Fisheries and Hunting: Camille-Eugène Pouliot
  • Mines: William McOuat Cottingham
  • Hydraulic resources: Daniel Johnson Sr.
  • Roads: Antonio Talbot
  • Transportation and Communications: Antoine Rivard
  • Municipal Affairs: Paul Dozois
  • Industry and Commerce: Jean-Paul Beaulieu
  • Attorney General: Antoine Rivard
  • Provincial Secretary: Yves Prevost
  • Solicitor General: Jacques Miquelon (1959–1960)
  • Finances: John Samuel Bourque
  • State Ministers: Gerard Thibeault, Antonio Elie, Maurice Bellemare, Wilfrid Labbe, Robert Bernard, Jacques Miquelon (1959)

=Barrette Cabinet (1960)=

  • Prime Minister and Executive Council President: Antonio Barrette
  • Agriculture: Laurent Barrée
  • Colonization: Joseph-Damase Begin
  • Labour: Antonio Barrette
  • Public Works: Roméo Lorrain
  • Social Welfare and Youth: Jean-Jacques Bertrand
  • Health: Arthur Leclerc
  • Lands and Forests: Jacques Miquelon
  • Fisheries and Hunting: Camille-Eugène Pouliot
  • Mines: William McOuat Cottingham
  • Hydraulic resources: Daniel Johnson Sr.
  • Roads: Antonio Talbot
  • Transportation and Communications: Antoine Rivard
  • Municipal Affairs: Paul Dozois
  • Industry and Commerce: Jean-Paul Beaulieu
  • Attorney General: Antoine Rivard
  • Provincial Secretary: Yves Prévost
  • Solicitor General: Jacques Miquelon
  • Finances: John Samuel Bourque
  • State Ministers: Gerard Thibeault, Antonio Élie, Maurice Bellemare, Wilfrid Labbe, Robert Bernard, Maurice-Tréfflé Custeau, Armand Maltais

New electoral districts

The electoral map was slightly modified in 1960 with the creation of the Duplessis riding from parts of Saguenay just before the elections later that year. In addition, Bourget was created from parts of Laval. [http://www.quebecpolitique.com/election/electcomte-1960.html]

References

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External links

  • [http://www.quebecpolitique.com/election/elect25.html 1956 election results]
  • [http://www.assnat.qc.ca/fr/patrimoine/cabinets2.html List of Historical Cabinet Ministers]

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