Louis-Olivier Taillon

Sir Louis-Olivier Taillon
8th Premier of Quebec
In office 25 January 1887 – 27 January 1887
Preceded by	John Jones Ross
Succeeded by	Honoré Mercier
In office 16 December 1892 – 11 May 1896
Preceded by	Charles Boucher de Boucherville
Succeeded by	Edmund James Flynn
Personal details
Born	September 26, 1840(1840-09-26) Saint-Louis-de-Terrebonne (Terrebonne), Lower Canada
Died	April 25, 1923(1923-04-25) (aged 82) Montreal, Quebec
Resting place	Notre Dame des Neiges Cemetery

Sir Louis-Olivier Taillon, PC (September 26, 1840 – April 25, 1923) was born in Terrebonne, Quebec. He twice served as the eighth Premier of the Canadian province of Quebec.

Taillon's first term of office was just four days, from January 25 to January 29, 1887. This term came at the end of the Conservative government of his predecessor John Jones Ross. Ross had lost the 1886 Quebec election, but had tried to cling to power in a minority government for a few more months.

Taillon was Leader of the Opposition from 1887 until 1890, when he lost the 1890 election and his own seat.

He briefly returned to the practice of law, but following the removal of Liberal Honoré Mercier from office by the Lieutenant-Governor of Quebec, Taillon became minister without portfolio in the government of Charles-Eugène Boucher de Boucherville. Taillon became premier when Boucher de Boucherville resigned.

He resigned in 1896 and moved into federal politics to serve as Postmaster-General in the very short-lived federal Conservative government of Charles Tupper, from May to July 1896. He failed to gain a federal seat in the 1896 federal election, and likewise failed to secure a seat in the 1900 federal election, ending his political career. In 1916, he was made a Knight Bachelor. He died in Montreal in 1923.

Elections as party leader

He lost the 1890 election.

See also

• Politics of Quebec
• List of Quebec general elections
• Timeline of Quebec history

References

• "Louis-Olivier Taillon". Dictionary of Canadian Biography (online ed.). University of Toronto Press. 1979–2005. 
• "Biography" (in French). Dictionnaire des parlementaires du Québec de 1792 à nos jours. National Assembly of Quebec. http://www.assnat.qc.ca/en/deputes/taillon-louis-olivier-5449/index.html. 

External links

• Louis-Olivier Taillon at Find a Grave

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