Canadian politician and Supreme Court justice (1823?1896)
Telesphore Fournier
,
PC
(August 5, 1823 – May 10, 1896) was a
Canadian
politician, lawyer, and judge of the
Supreme Court of Canada
.
Born in Saint-Francois-de-la-Riviere-du-Sud,
Lower Canada
(now
Quebec
), the son of Guillaume Fournier and Marie-Archange Morin, he was called to the bar in 1846. On July 22, 1857, he married Hermine-Eloise Demers, and they had nine children: seven daughters and two sons.
From 1855 to 1859, he was the co-owner and co-editor of the newspaper,
Le National de Quebec
.
In an 1870 by-election, he was acclaimed as a
Liberal
Member of Parliament
in the riding of
Bellechasse
. He was re-elected in
1872
, 1873, and 1875. He held three ministerial positions:
Minister of Inland Revenue
(1873?1874),
Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada
(1874?1875), and
Postmaster General
(1875). He tabled the bill to create the
Supreme Court of Canada
in February 1875.
At that period of time, it was possible to be a Member of Parliament and a Member of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Quebec (pre-1968 designation of the (
Quebec National Assembly
) (MLA). He was an MLA in the riding of
Montmagny
from 1871 to 1873.
He was appointed as one of the first judges of the Supreme Court of Canada on September 30, 1875. Four years later, his wife died, and his eldest daughter then kept house. He retired on September 12, 1895, and died on May 10, 1896, at the age of 72.
The house he lived in from 1877 until 1882 is now the
Embassy of the Republic of Croatia in Ottawa
.
Electoral record
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By-election on 27 May 1870
Casault appointed Puisne Judge of the Superior Court of Quebec
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Telesphore Fournier
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The office of Postmaster General was abolished when the Post Office Department became a Crown Corporation known as the
Canada Post Corporation
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The offices of Minister of Customs and Minister of Inland Revenue were amalgamated by
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