Jean-Baptiste Brousseau (January 2, 1841 – June 21, 1925) was a lawyer, journalist and political figure in
Quebec. He represented
Verchères
Verchères is an off-island suburb of Montreal, in Montérégie, Quebec, located on the south bank of the Saint Lawrence River. The population as of the Canada 2011 Census was 5,692.
History
In the 17th century, the settlement at Verchères w ...
in the
Legislative Assembly of Quebec
The Legislative Assembly of Quebec (French: ''Assemblée législative du Québec'') was the name of the lower house of Quebec's legislature from 1867 to December 31, 1968, when it was renamed the National Assembly of Quebec. At the same time, t ...
from 1878 to 1879 as a
Liberal.
He was born in
Saint-Mathieu de Beloeil,
Lower Canada, the son of Jean-Baptiste Brousseau and Marie-Anne-Charlotte Hertel de Rouville who was the daughter of
seigneur Jean-Baptiste-René Hertel de Rouville, and was educated at the Collège de Saint-Hyacinthe and the Collège de l'Assomption. He articled in law with Louis Bélanger and
Lewis Thomas Drummond and was called to the Lower Canada bar in 1863. In 1864, he married Marie Eulalie Malot. Brousseau served as Crown Prosecutor for Richelieu district from 1871 to 1874. He was editor for the ''Messager de Sorel'' and was, with
Georges-Isidore Barthe, co-editor for the ''La Gazette de Sorel''. His election in 1878 was overturned in the following year and he did not run in the subsequent by-election. In 1899, he was named
Queen's Counsel. Brousseau died in
Sorel at the age of 84.
His uncle
Joseph Daigle also represented Verchères in the Quebec assembly.
References
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1841 births
1886 deaths
Quebec Liberal Party MNAs
People from Montérégie
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