page_title: Pierre-Joseph-Olivier Chauveau
section_title: Later life
hierarchical_section_title: Pierre-Joseph-Olivier Chauveau / Later life
caption_attribution_description: Français&#160;: Marie-Louise-Flore Masse (Madame Pierre-Joseph-Olivier Chauveau)
context_page_description: Pierre-Joseph-Olivier Chauveau was a Canadian lawyer and politician. Chauveau was the first Premier of the province of Quebec, following the establishment of Canada in 1867. Appointed to the office in 1867 as the leader of the Conservative Party, he won the provincial elections of 1867 and 1871.
  Chauveau was also active in federal politics, being elected to the first House of Commons in 1867, an example of the dual mandate which was originally permitted in Canada. He resigned as premier and from his seats in the Commons and the Legislative Assembly in 1873, when he was appointed as Speaker of the Senate of Canada by the government of Sir John A. Macdonald. He resigned from that position only a year later to stand again for election to the Commons in the general election of 1874, but was defeated. He then retired from politics.
  Chauveau had a life-long interest in literature and public affairs. He was the author of a novel and many short columns and letters on the political situation in Lower Canada.
context_section_description: In 1878, he became professor of Roman law at Université Laval. He died April 4 in Quebec City in 1890.
caption: Marie-Louise-Flore Chauveau in later life
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