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♂ Maurice Le Noblet Duplessis
aliasMaurice Duplessis
Record
17788 · 7207

☆   Roman Catholic   ∞3
Type of record
Elected candidate ✓
Known but unelected candidate
Perennial candidate		 Deceased Performance: 90%
  ✓ ✗ ∑
Québec 9 1 10
Birth 20 April 1890 → 134 years ago
Lived 69 years + 4 months
First mandate 16 May 1927 → 96 years + 11 months ago
↳ at age 37 years
Death 7 September 1959 → 64 years + 7 months ago
Died in office Yes
Special notes
None
 
Maurice Le Noblet Duplessis (1890–1959)
© Photo 1947 Roger Bédard — Public domain
Family ties with other documented individuals
⊖ Richard-Stanislas Cooke (1850–1924) Uncle  
⊖ Nérée L.N. Duplessis (1855–1926) Father  
⊖ William-Pierre Grant (1872–1943) Uncle  
 
Well that's interesting!
Remembered by some as a great leader and by others for "La Grande Noirceur" (The Great Darkness), Duplessis served as Québec's premier for 18 years and 82 days — although not consecutively — and he remains to this day the person who has occupied that position the longest.
 

Service in elected office

Legislature Total Government Opposition
years months days years months days years months days
Québec 32 3 14 Z

Leadership roles

  Duration
# Legislature Party M Int Role Age Dates y m d
1. QC 18–19
CONS
 1 Opposition Leader 42–46 20 Sep 1932 — 16 Aug 1936 3 10 27
2. QC 18–19
CONS
 1 Party leader 43–46 04 Oct 1933 — 19 Jun 1936 2 8 15
3. QC 19–25
UN
 2 Party leader 46–69 20 Jun 1936 — 07 Sep 1959 23 2 18
4. QC 20
UN
 1 Premier 46–49 17 Aug 1936 — 24 Oct 1939 3 2 7
5. QC 21
UN
 2 Opposition Leader 49–54 25 Oct 1939 — 07 Aug 1944 4 9 13
6. QC 22–25
UN
 2 Premier 54–69 08 Aug 1944 — 07 Sep 1959 15 0 30

Electoral history

Races 10  
Path points 11  
3 documented challengers
⊖ H.-Georges Grenier  m 
⊖ Joseph-Alfred Mongrain  m 
 		 ⊖ Louis-Philippe Mercier  m  (2 runoffs)
 
Eligible: 4,990 Votes: 2,991 Participation: 59.94% Candidacies: 2
Provincial
16		 Québec
5 February 1923
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  QLP  Majority
ID: 16006(F) — 24 Jul 2021 09:35 ET
✗
 Defeated but elected later to this legislature
Age
32
CONS
 2/2 1,328 45.17% -284 Winner:
QLP
 1,612 54.83% Louis-Philippe Mercier
Eligible: 7,153 Votes: 5,170 Participation: 72.28% Candidacies: 2
Provincial
17		 Québec
16 May 1927
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  QLP  Majority
ID: 16096(F) — 24 Jul 2021 09:35 ET
✓
 → New to this legislature
Age
37
CONS
 1/2 2,622 51.23% +126 Loser:
QLP
 2,496 48.77% Louis-Philippe Mercier

Service: 4 years 3 months 7 days (Oppo.)
Eligible: 9,174 Votes: 7,611 Participation: 82.96% Candidacies: 2
Provincial
18		 Québec
24 August 1931
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  QLP  Majority
ID: 16181(F) — 18 Feb 2022 20:54 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
41
CONS
 1/2 3,812 50.27% +41 Loser:
QLP
 3,771 49.73% Philippe Bigué

Service: 4 years 3 months (Oppo.)
Eligible: 9,893 Votes: 8,577 Participation: 86.70% Candidacies: 2
Provincial
19		 Québec
25 November 1935
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  QLP  Majority
ID: 16277(F) — 8 Sep 2021 20:47 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent (Party leader)
Age
45
CONS
 1/2 4,873 57.03% +1,202 Loser:
QLP
 3,671 42.97% Léon Lajoie

Service: 8 months 22 days (Oppo.)
Eligible: 9,855 Votes: 8,192 Participation: 83.13% Candidacies: 2
Provincial
20		 Québec
17 August 1936
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  UN  Majority
ID: 16367(F) — 8 Sep 2021 21:48 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent (Party leader)
Age
46
UN
 1/2 5,628 69.31% +3,136 Loser:
QLP
 2,492 30.69% Philippe Bigué

Service: 3 years 2 months 7 days (Gov't)
Eligible: 10,215 Votes: 8,980 Participation: 87.91% Candidacies: 2
Provincial
21		 Québec
25 October 1939
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  QLP  Majority
ID: 16457(F) — 8 Sep 2021 21:49 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent (Party leader)
Age
49
UN
 1/2 5,278 59.69% +1,713 Loser:
QLP
 3,565 40.31% Atchez Pitt

Service: 4 years 9 months 13 days (Oppo.)
Eligible: 23,695 Votes: 19,053 Participation: 80.41% Candidacies: 3
Provincial
22		 Québec
8 August 1944
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  UN  Majority
ID: 16544(F) — 8 Sep 2021 21:49 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent (Party leader)
Age
54
UN
 1/3 12,576 66.74% +7,258 Loser:
QLP
 5,318 28.22% Léopold Pinsonnault

Service: 3 years 11 months 19 days (Gov't)
Eligible: 26,114 Votes: 21,183 Participation: 81.12% Candidacies: 3
Provincial
23		 Québec
28 July 1948
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  UN  Majority
ID: 16640(F) — 8 Sep 2021 21:50 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent (Party leader)
Age
58
UN
 1/3 16,097 76.91% +12,261 Loser:
QLP
 3,836 18.33% Alexandre-Marcel Lajoie

Service: 3 years 11 months 17 days (Gov't)
Eligible: 28,392 Votes: 25,736 Participation: 90.65% Candidacies: 2
Provincial
24		 Québec
16 July 1952
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  UN  Majority
ID: 16734(F) — 8 Sep 2021 21:51 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent (Party leader)
Age
62
UN
 1/2 15,493 60.64% +5,435 Loser:
QLP
 10,058 39.36% Joseph-Alfred Mongrain

Service: 3 years 11 months 3 days (Gov't)
Eligible: 30,230 Votes: 26,672 Participation: 88.23% Candidacies: 4
Provincial
25		 Québec
20 June 1956
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  UN  Majority
ID: 16826(F) — 1 Oct 2022 08:32 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent (Party leader)
Age
66
UN
 1/4 16,263 61.73% +6,327 Loser:
QLP
 9,936 37.72% Lorne Berlinguet
After his election:
7 Sep 1959 69
O
 →
Vac.
 Died in office
Service: 3 years 2 months 18 days (Gov't)
Eligible: 31,763 Votes: 28,339 Participation: 89.22% Candidacies: 4
Provincial
26		 Québec
22 June 1960
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  QLP  Majority
ID: 16921(F) — 1 Oct 2022 08:32 ET
—
 Deceased
Age
69		 Successor:
UN
 13,221 46.65% Yves Gabias

Online biographical references (5)

Bilingual references are counted as a single reference.  Retrieved on
EN Canadian Encyclopedia
Maurice Le Noblet Duplessis		 18 Apr 2024
FR Encyclopédie canadienne
Maurice Le Noblet Duplessis		 18 Apr 2024
EN Dictionary of Canadian Biography
Duplessis, Maurice Le Noblet		 18 Apr 2024
FR Dictionnaire biographique du Canada
Duplessis, Maurice Le Noblet		 18 Apr 2024
FR Quebec National Assembly
Maurice Le Noblet Duplessis		 18 Apr 2024
EN Wikipedia
Maurice Duplessis		 18 Apr 2024
FR Wikipédia
Maurice Duplessis		 18 Apr 2024

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