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♂ Télesphore Fournier
aliasTélesphore Fournier
Record
20784 · 4957

Type of record
Elected candidate ✓
Known but unelected candidate
Perennial candidate		 Deceased Performance: 100%
  ✓ ✗ ∑
Canada 4 0 4
Québec 1 0 1
Total 5 0 5
Birth 5 August 1823 → 200 years + 8 months ago
Lived 72 years + 9 months
First mandate 15 August 1870 → 153 years + 8 months ago
↳ at age 47 years
Death 10 May 1896 → 127 years + 11 months ago
Exit → Death 20 years + 7 months after 8 October 1875
Special notes
None
 
Télesphore Fournier (1823–1896) 200x270
© Photo — Public domain
Family tie with other documented individual
None
 

Length of Service in elected office

Legislature Total Government Opposition
years months days years months days years months days
Canada 5 1 1
Québec 2 4 5 Z
TOTAL 7 5 7

Leadership roles

  Duration
# Legislature Party M Int Role Age Dates y m d
1. CA 2–3
LIB
 1 Minister 50 07 Nov 1873 — 07 Jul 1874 0 8 0
2. CA 3
LIB
 1 Minister 50–51 08 Jul 1874 — 18 May 1875 0 10 10
3. CA 3
LIB
 1 Minister 51–52 19 May 1875 — 07 Oct 1875 0 4 18
 1. Inland Revenue
 2. Justice and Attorney General
 3. Post Office

Electoral history

Races 5  
Path points 7  
2 documented challengers
⊖ Joseph-Guillaume Bossé  m 
 		 ⊖ Adolphe-Philippe Caron  m 
 
Eligible: 2,042 Votes: 0 Participation: n/a Candidacy: 1
Federal
1		 Québec
15 August 1870
By-Election
First-past-the-post
Gov't  CONS  Majority
ID: 18462(F) — 16 Aug 2021 01:27 ET
✓
 → New to Parliament
Age
47
LIB
 1/1 By acclamation

Service: 1 year 11 months 4 days (Oppo.)
Eligible: 1,644 Votes: 1,124 Participation: 68.37% Candidacies: 2
Provincial
2		 Québec
15 July 1871
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  CONS  Majority
ID: 14916(F) — 2 Oct 2022 12:59 ET
✓
 → New to this legislature
Age
47
QLP
 1/2 706 62.81% +288 Loser:
CONS
 418 37.19% Joseph-Guillaume Bossé
After his election:
19 Nov 1873 50
QLP
 →
Vac.
 Elected in another riding
Service: 2 years 4 months 4 days (Oppo.)
Eligible: inc. Votes: 1,857 Participation: inc. Candidacies: 2
Federal
2		 Québec
20 July 1872
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  CONS  Minority
 LIB  5 Nov 1873
ID: 18598(F) — 25 Jun 2023 20:48 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
48
LIB
 1/2 1,219 65.64% +581 Loser:
CONS
 638 34.36% Adolphe-Philippe Caron
After his election:
5 Nov 1873 50
CONS
 →
LIB
 Change of government (became part of government)
7 Nov 1873 50
LIB
 →
Vac.
 Successfully ran in a ministerial by-election
Service: 1 year 3 months 18 days (Oppo. & Gov't)
Eligible: n/a Votes: 0 Participation: n/a Candidacy: 1
Federal
2		 Québec
27 November 1873
By-Election
First-past-the-post
Gov't  LIB  Minority
ID: 18680(F) — 11 Oct 2022 15:17 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
50
LIB
 1/1 By acclamation

Service: 1 month 25 days (Gov't)
Eligible: 1,644 Votes: 1,425 Participation: 86.68% Candidacies: 2
Provincial
2		 Québec
16 December 1873
By-Election
First-past-the-post
Gov't  CONS  Majority
ID: 15906(F) — 24 Jul 2021 09:35 ET
—
 Incumbent did not run in this election →
Age
50		 Successor:
QLP
 807 56.63% François-C.-S. Langelier
Eligible: n/a Votes: 0 Participation: n/a Candidacy: 1
Federal
3		 Québec
22 January 1874
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  LIB  Majority
ID: 18834(F) — 20 Jan 2022 23:26 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
50
LIB
 1/1 By acclamation
After his election:
8 Oct 1875 52
LIB
 →
Vac.
 To accept an appointment (judge, senator, etc.)
Service: 1 year 8 months 16 days (Gov't)
Eligible: inc. Votes: 1,500 Participation: inc. Candidacies: 3
Federal
3		 Québec
23 November 1875
By-Election
First-past-the-post
Gov't  LIB  Majority
ID: 18964(F) — 16 Aug 2021 01:27 ET
—
 Incumbent did not run in this election →
Age
52		 Successor:
CONS
 698 46.53% Joseph-Godric Blanchet

Online biographical references (5)

Bilingual references are counted as a single reference.  Retrieved on
EN Dictionary of Canadian Biography
Fournier, Télesphore		 24 Dec 2023
FR Dictionnaire biographique du Canada
Fournier, Télesphore		 24 Dec 2023
EN Parliament of Canada (ParlInfo)
The Hon. Télesphore Fournier, P.C., M.P.		 24 Dec 2023
FR Parlement du Canada (ParlInfo)
L'hon. Télesphore Fournier, C.P., député		 24 Dec 2023
FR Quebec National Assembly
Télesphore Fournier		 24 Dec 2023
EN Wikipedia
Télesphore Fournier		 24 Dec 2023
FR Wikipédia
Télesphore Fournier		 24 Dec 2023

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Pub.: 22 Jun 2019 17:01
Rev.: 24 Dec 2023 08:06 (but data presented dynamically)

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