Jean-Pierre Côté
Jean-Pierre Côté | |
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| File:Jean-Pierre Côté.png Official 1968 portrait | |
| 23rd Lieutenant Governor of Quebec | |
| In office April 27, 1978 – March 28, 1984 | |
| Monarch | Elizabeth II |
| Governors General | Jules Léger Edward Schreyer |
| Premier | René Lévesque |
| Preceded by | Hugues Lapointe |
| Succeeded by | Gilles Lamontagne |
| Senator for Kennebec, Quebec | |
| In office September 1, 1972 – April 27, 1978 | |
| Preceded by | Cyrille Vaillancourt |
| Succeeded by | Claude Wagner |
| Member of the Canadian Parliament for Longueuil | |
| In office April 8, 1963 – October 30, 1972 | |
| Preceded by | Pierre Sévigny |
| Succeeded by | Jacques Olivier |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Joseph Julien Jean-Pierre Côté January 9, 1926 Montreal, Quebec |
| Died | July 10, 2002 (aged 76) Montreal, Quebec |
| Party | Liberal |
| Cabinet | Postmaster General (1965–1968) Minister of National Revenue (1968–1970) Minister Without Portfolio (1970–1971) Postmaster General (1971–1972) Minister of Communications (Acting) (1971) |
Joseph Julien Jean-Pierre Côté PC OC (January 9, 1926 – July 10, 2002) was a Canadian parliamentarian and the 23rd Lieutenant Governor of Quebec.
Early life
[edit | edit source]Born in Montreal, Quebec, the son of Émile Côté and Cédia Roy, he studied to be a dental technician at the École technique de denturologie in Montreal.
Member of Parliament
[edit | edit source]In the 1963 federal elections, he was elected in the riding of Longueuil as the Liberal candidate. He was re-elected in 1965 and 1968. He held quite a few ministerial positions including Postmaster General, Minister of National Revenue, Minister without Portfolio, and Minister of Communications (Acting). He did not run for re-election in 1972.
Senate of Canada
[edit | edit source]In 1972, he was appointed to the senate representing the senatorial division of Kennebec, Quebec. He resigned in 1978.
Lieutenant Governor of Quebec
[edit | edit source]In 1978, he was appointed Lieutenant Governor of Quebec. He served until 1984.
Family
[edit | edit source]On July 31, 1948, he married Marie Anne Germaine Tremblay (17 September 1922 - 31 January 2011). They had eight children together: Andrée, Gilbert, Danielle, Robert, Paul, Hélène, Jocelyne, Isabelle.[1]
Honours
[edit | edit source]- He was sworn in as a Member of the Queen's Privy Council for Canada on 18 December 1965. This gave him the right to the honorific prefix "The Honourable" and the post nominal letters "PC" for life.
- In 1992, he was made an Officer of the Order of Canada giving him the post nominal letters "OC".
- In 2002 he was given the Canadian version of the Queen Elizabeth II Golden Jubilee Medal.
Artist
[edit | edit source]He was also an accomplished landscape painter.[2] His paintings are quite sought after.[3]
References
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- ^ Canadian Heritage Information Network - Jean-Pierre Côté
- ^ The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts - Documentary Resources
External links
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- 1926 births
- 2002 deaths
- Artists from Montreal
- Canadian landscape painters
- Canadian senators from Quebec
- Liberal Party of Canada MPs
- Liberal Party of Canada senators
- Lieutenant governors of Quebec
- Members of the House of Commons of Canada from Quebec
- Members of the King's Privy Council for Canada
- Officers of the Order of Canada
- People from Longueuil
- Politicians from Montreal
- Postmasters general of Canada
- 20th-century members of the House of Commons of Canada
- 20th-century members of the Senate of Canada