Onésime Gagnon

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| honorific-prefix = The Honourable

| name = Onésime Gagnon

| honorific-suffix = {{Post-nominals|country=CAN|PC|size=100%}}

| image = Onésime Gagnon.png

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| order = 20th

| office = Lieutenant Governor of Quebec

| predecessor = Gaspard Fauteux

| successor = Paul Comtois

| term_start = February 14, 1958

| term_end = September 30, 1961

| monarch = Elizabeth II

| governor_general = {{Plainlist|

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| office2 = Member of the Legislative Assembly of Quebec for Matane

| predecessor2 = Joseph-Arthur Bergeron

| successor2 = Benoît Gaboury

| term_start2 = August 17, 1936

| term_end2 = February 14, 1958

| constituency_MP3 = Dorchester

| parliament3 = Canadian

| predecessor3 = Lucien Cannon

| successor3 = Léonard Tremblay

| term_start3 = July 28, 1930

| term_end3 = October 14, 1935

| birth_date = {{birth date|1888|10|23}}

| birth_place = {{longitem|Saint-Léon-de-Standon, Quebec}}

| death_date = {{death date and age|1961|09|30|1888|10|23}}

| death_place = Bois-de-Coulonge, Sillery, Quebec

| nationality = Canadian

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Conservative}}

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Minister Without Portfolio (1935)}}

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{{longitem|Minister of Mines, Game and Fisheries (1936)}}
{{longitem|Minister of Mines and Fisheries (1936–1939)}}
{{longitem|Provincial Treasurer (1944–1958)}}}}

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Onésime Gagnon {{Post-nominals|country=CAN|PC}} ({{IPA|fr|ɔnezim ɡaɲɔ̃}}; October 23, 1888 – September 30, 1961) was a Canadian politician who served as the 20th Lieutenant Governor of Québec.

Background

He was born in Saint-Léon-de-Standon, Quebec, on October 23, 1888, and was the son of Onésime Gagnon and Julie Morin. He was a Rhodes scholar and was called to the Quebec Bar in 1912. From 1942 to 1958, he was a Professor in the Faculty of Law at Université Laval.

Member of Parliament

In 1930, he was elected to the House of Commons of Canada 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.

Provincial politics

Gagnon was a leadership candidate at the Conservative Party of Quebec convention, held in Sherbrooke on October 4 and 5, 1933. He was defeated by Maurice Duplessis with 28% of the delegates.

In 1936, he was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Quebec and became the Union Nationale Member for the riding of Matane. He was appointed Minister in the Cabinet of Maurice Duplessis, serving as Minister of Fisheries from 1936 to 1939 and as Treasurer from 1944 to 1958.

He was re-elected in 1939, 1944, 1948, 1952, and 1956.