Jules-Édouard Prévost
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Jules-Édouard Prévost (21 November 1871 – 13 October 1943) was a
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and
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member of the
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. He was born in Saint-Jérôme, Quebec and became a journalist and publisher. Prévost attended Collège Saint-Suplice in
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then studied further in
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and
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. He was a director of the newspaper ''l'Avenir du Nord''. In 1910, he became a member of Quebec's Council of Public Instruction and from 1914 to 1916 was president of the French Aid Society for Terrebonne County. He was first elected to Parliament at the Terrebonne riding under the
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in the 1917 general election. After this, he was re-elected as a Liberal in
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,
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and
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. During his term in the
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, Prévost was appointed to the
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on 3 June 1930 and remained in that role until his death on 13 October 1943. His uncle was politician
Wilfrid Prévost Wilfrid Prévost (April 30, 1832 – February 15, 1898) was a lawyer and political figure in Quebec, Canada. He represented Two Mountains in the House of Commons of Canada as a Liberal member from 1872 to 1875. He was born in Sainte-Anne ...
, father of politician Jean Prévost.


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* * 1871 births 1943 deaths Canadian senators from Quebec Members of the House of Commons of Canada from Quebec Laurier Liberals Liberal Party of Canada MPs People from Saint-Jérôme Politicians from Laurentides 20th-century members of the House of Commons of Canada 20th-century members of the Senate of Canada {{Quebec-senator-stub