Alphonse Bernier, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Alphonse Bernier

Lawyer, academic, judge, and politician

Date of Birth: 07-Apr-1861

Place of Birth: Lévis, Quebec, Canada

Date of Death: 07-Oct-1944

Profession: judge, lawyer, politician

Nationality: Canada

Zodiac Sign: Aries


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About Alphonse Bernier

  • Alphonse Bernier (April 7, 1861 – October 7, 1944) was a Canadian lawyer, judge, and provincial politician. Born in Lévis, Canada East, Bernier studied at the Séminaire de Québec, Collège de Lévis, and Université Laval.
  • He was admitted to the Quebec Bar in 1883.
  • He received a PhD in law from Université Laval in 1887 and was created a King's Counsel in 1903.He practiced law in Quebec City and was a professor of commercial and maritime law at Université Laval from 1889 to 1934.He was mayor of Lévis from 1907 to 1917.
  • He ran unsuccessfully as the Conservative candidate in the 1890 provincial elections in the riding of Dorchester and the Conservative candidate in the 1900 federal elections in the riding of Montmagny.
  • He was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Quebec for Lévis in 1912.
  • He was defeated in 1916 and was also defeated in the 1917 federal election in Lévis.From 1921 to 1942, he was a judge of the Court of King's Bench.He died in Lévis, Quebec in 1944 and was buried in the Mont-Marie Cemetery in Lévis.

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