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Place of Birth: Quebec City, Quebec, Canada
About Jules Tessier
- Jules Tessier (April 16, 1852 – January 6, 1934) was a Canadian lawyer and politician. He was born in Quebec City, Quebec, the son of Ulric-Joseph Tessier and Mariane Perrault.
- He was educated at the Quebec seminary and at the Jesuit college in Montreal, and was admitted to the Quebec Bar in 1874.
- He was created a Queen's Counsel in 1899.
- A practising lawyer, he ran unsuccessfully for Mayor of Quebec City in 1894.
- He was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Quebec in the riding of Portneuf in the 1886 election.
- A Liberal, he was re-elected in 1890, 1892, 1897, and acclaimed in 1900.
- From 1897 to 1901, he was Speaker of the Legislative Assembly.
- He resigned in 1903, when he was appointed to the Senate of Canada representing the senatorial division of De la Durantaye, Quebec.
- A Liberal, he died in office in 1934. His brother, Auguste Tessier, was also a Member and Speaker of the Legislative Assembly as well as a Cabinet minister.
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