Joseph Lachaud de Loqueyssie (1 October 1848 – 17 February 1896) was a French politician who was deputy of Tarn-et-Garonne in 1877–81.
Early years
Joseph-Eugène-Albert de Lachaud de Loqueyssie was born on 1 October 1848 in
Montauban
Montauban (, ; oc, Montalban ) is a commune in the Tarn-et-Garonne department, region of Occitania, Southern France. It is the capital of the department and lies north of Toulouse. Montauban is the most populated town in Tarn-et-Garonne, an ...
, Tarn-et-Garonne.
His parents were Pierre Jules Lachaud de Loqueyssie (1815–1883) and Rose Françoise Prax.
He was a captain in the
Basses-Alpes
Alpes-de-Haute-Provence or sometimes abbreviated as AHP (; oc, Aups d'Auta Provença; ) is a department in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region of France, bordering Alpes-Maritimes and Italy to the east, Var to the south, Vaucluse to the west, ...
Garde Mobile during the Franco-Prussian War, and on 26 November 1870 was wounded during the attack on Dijon.
On 2 June 1872 in Granges-d'Ans he married Jeanne Johnston (1849–1921), the granddaughter of Georges Johnston.
They had several children.
He became the owner of his father-in-law's Château de Redon in
Granges-d'Ans
Granges-d'Ans (; oc, Granges d'Ans) is a commune in the Dordogne department in Nouvelle-Aquitaine in southwestern France. As part of the Pays d'Ans, it shares a link with the neighbouring communes of Badefols-d'Ans, La Boissière-d'Ans, Chour ...
and the Château de Pouzelande in
Notre-Dame-de-Sanilhac
Notre-Dame-de-Sanilhac (; oc, Nòstra Dama de Sanilhac) is a former commune in the Dordogne department in Nouvelle-Aquitaine in southwestern France. On 1 January 2017, it was merged into the new commune Sanilhac.Adrien Joseph Prax-Paris, ran for election in the first district of
Montauban
Montauban (, ; oc, Montalban ) is a commune in the Tarn-et-Garonne department, region of Occitania, Southern France. It is the capital of the department and lies north of Toulouse. Montauban is the most populated town in Tarn-et-Garonne, an ...
and encouraged him to run for election as a conservative in the second district of the same city.
He lost by 5,981 to 6,487 for his opponent, Léon Pagès( fr).
After the dissolution of the Chamber following the
16 May 1877 crisis
The 16 May 1877 crisis (french: link=no, Crise du seize mai) was a constitutional crisis in the French Third Republic concerning the distribution of power between the president and the legislature. When the royalist president Patrice MacMahon ...
he ran as the government candidate for the same seat and was elected.
He joined the
Appel au peuple
The Appel au peuple (Plebiscite) was a Bonapartist parliamentary group during the early years of the French Third Republic. They advocated a plebiscite by which the people would choose the form of government, which they assumed would be a revival ...
parliamentary group and voted with the right.
He ran for reelection on 21 August 1881 but was defeated by Léon Pagès, who won 5,853 votes to his 5,680.
After this he retired from politics.
Joseph Lachaud de Loqueyssie died on 17 February 1896 at the age of 47 in