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Esioff-Léon Patenaude, , often called E.L. Patenaude (February 12, 1875 – February 7, 1963) was a Canadian statesman who served as the 17th
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. Born in Saint-Isidore,
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, in 1875, he studied law at the
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and was called to the
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in 1899. He established a successful law practice, was soon drawn to politics, and served as a chief organizer for the
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in
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. He was first elected to the
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as a
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in La Prairie in the 1908 provincial election and was re-elected in the 1912 election. In 1915, he was elected to the
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in a by-election and joined the government of Prime Minister Sir
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as
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. He served in that position until early 1917, when he was appointed as Secretary of State and Minister of Mines. In July, however, Patenaude resigned from the
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in protest of the government's decision to implement
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. He chose not to seek re-election in the 1917 federal election. When
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became Prime Minister in 1920, he offered Patenaude a seat in cabinet, who declined. Returning to provincial politics, Patenaude was re-elected to the Quebec National Assembly in
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in 1923. In 1925, however, Meighen persuaded Patenaude to return to federal politics as his
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. He was given almost exclusive authority over the Conservative Party's campaign in Quebec during the 1925 federal election as Meighen's
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. Patenaude proved, however, to be little match for
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and the
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, and secured only 4 seats in the province. Patenaude, who had resigned his seat in the
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to contest the election, was himself defeated. Despite the setback, Patenaude continued to enjoy the favour of Meighen. When Meighen formed a second government in 1926, he appointed Patenaude as
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and
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. Patenaude led the Conservative Party in Quebec for a second time during the 1926 federal election but again fared poorly and was himself defeated. In 1934, the
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, on the advice of Canadian Prime Minister
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, appointed Patenaude as
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, a position in which he served until his retirement from public life in 1939. In his later years, he experienced a successful career as a banker (became President of the
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in 1946) and businessman (as director of McColl Frontenac, Crown Life Insurance and board of Texaco Canada).


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