Gédéon Ouimet

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name = Gédéon Ouimet
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order = 2nd Premier of Quebec
term_start = 27 February 1873
term_end = 22 September 1874
predecessor = Pierre-Joseph-Olivier Chauveau
successor = Charles Boucher de Boucherville
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birth_place = Sainte-Rose (Laval), Lower Canada
death_date = death date and age | 1905|04|23|1823|06|02
death_place = Mont-Saint-Hilaire, Quebec
party = Conservative
spouse = Marie-Jeanne Pellant
religion = Roman Catholic
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Gédéon Ouimet (June 2, 1823 – April 23, 1905) was a French-Canadian politician.

Born in what is today part of the city of Laval, Quebec Canada, Ouimet served as the Conservative Premier of the province of Quebec from February 26, 1873 to September 22, 1874. He resigned as party leader of the Quebec Conservatives in 1874. He died in Saint-Hilaire-de-Dorset, Quebec in 1905. The Quebec town Saint-Gédéon chaged its name from Grandmont in honour of Ouimet.

ee also

*Politics of Quebec
*List of Quebec general elections
*Timeline of Quebec history
*List of Presidents of the Saint-Jean-Baptiste Society of Montreal

External links

* [http://www.biographi.ca/009004-119.01-e.php?&id_nbr=6978 Biography at the "Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online"]
* [http://www.assnat.qc.ca/fra/membres/notices/o-p/OUIMG.htm National Assembly biography] fr icon
* [http://www.ville.st-gedeon.qc.ca/cadre.php?page=historique History of the Quebec town of Saint-Gédéon] fr icon

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before=Charles Daoust (Parti rouge)
after=Paul Denis (Parti bleu)
years=1858-1861succession box|title=MLA, District of Deux-Montagnes
before=Provincial district created in 1867
after=Charles Champagne (Conservative)
years=1867-1876succession box|title=Legislative Councillor, District of Rougemont
before=Pierre Boucher de la Bruère (Conservative)
after=François Gosselin (Liberal)
years=1895-1905succession box
before=Pierre-Joseph-Olivier Chauveau (Conservative)
title=Premier of Quebec
years=27 February 1873 – 22 September 1874
after=Charles-Eugène Boucher de Boucherville (Conservative)