Louis Lacoste was a notary and political figure in Lower Canada and then Canada East, Province of Canada.
19 Facts About Louis Lacoste
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Louis Lacoste was a member of the Legislative Assembly of Lower Canada, supporting Louis-Joseph Papineau and the Parti patriote.
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Louis Lacoste was one of the original members of the Senate of Canada from 1867 to 1878.
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Louis Lacoste was descended from Alexandre Lacoste, who came from what is the department of Gard in southern France.
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Louis Lacoste studied law and qualified as a notary on March 19,1821, opening his practice at Boucherville.
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Louis Lacoste became one of the leading members of the notarial profession, and eventually was the president of the Chambre des notaires of the Montreal district.
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Louis Lacoste entered politics in 1834 as a candidate for the French-Canadian nationalist party, the Parti patriote.
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Louis Lacoste was elected to represent the county of Chambly in the Legislative Assembly of Lower Canada.
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Louis Lacoste defeated the incumbent, Frederic-Auguste Quesnel, who had held the seat since 1820, through four previous elections.
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Louis Lacoste retained his seat until the suspension of the provincial constitution by the British Parliament in March, 1838, in response to the Lower Canada Rebellion.
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Louis Lacoste was a strong supporter of the Patriote cause, and was one of the speakers at the Assembly of the Six Counties in October 1837.
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Louis Lacoste made a fiery speech, calling for the replacement of all justices of the peace, arbitrators, and officers of the militia by elections at the county level, since the current officials had been appointed by an "administration hostile to the country".
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Louis Lacoste was elected to the new Legislative Assembly in a by-election in October 1843, again for the Chambly district.
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Louis Lacoste did not run in 1848 but was elected again in an 1849 by-election and re-elected in 1851.
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Louis Lacoste was elected again in 1858 and resigned in 1861 to run for a seat in the Legislative Council for Montarville division in 1861.
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Louis Lacoste was one of the original members of the Senate of Canada.
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Louis Lacoste was named to the Senate under the proclamation bringing the British North America Act, 1867 into force.
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Louis Lacoste was the father of Alexandre Lacoste, who became a member of the Senate, and then Chief Justice of the Quebec Court of King's Bench.
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Louis Lacoste died in Boucherville in 1878 while still in office.