monarch death_date constituency_mp nationality birth_date term_end death_place governor_general term_start name relations predecessor parliament birth_place party office appointed successor premier article_title birth_name
elizabeth ii 16 august 1999 gloucester canadian 2 november 1911 december 25 , 1968 23 , 1981 october 8 , 1971 june bathurst , new brunswick roland michener jules léger edward schreyer october 10 , 1953 8 , 1971 june 28 , 1968 august hédard robichaud jean george robichaud , father wallace samuel bird albany robichaud canadian shippegan , new brunswick liberal lieutenant new brunswick governor of new brunswick senator for gloucester , pierre trudeau george stanley herb breau richard hatfield hédard robichaud
 hédard joseph robichaud
hédard robichaud

hédard joseph robichaud , -lrb- november 2 , 1911 -- august 16 , 1999 -rrb- was an acadian-canadian member of parliament , cabinet member , senator and the first acadian to be lieutenant governor of new brunswick .
born in shippegan , new brunswick , the son of jean george robichaud and amanda boudreau , he received a b.a. from the université saint-joseph , later the university of moncton , in 1931 .
he first ran for the house of commons as a liberal candidate in a 1952 by-election in the riding of gloucester , new brunswick and lost .
he was elected in the 1953 federal election , and was re-elected in the 1957 , 1958 , 1962 , 1963 and 1965 elections .
from 1963 to 1968 , he was the minister of fisheries .
in 1968 , he was appointed to the senate representing the senatorial division of gloucester , new brunswick .
he resigned in 1971 to become the 24th lieutenant governor of new brunswick .
he served in that position until 1981 .
in 1985 , he was made an officer of the order of canada .
he was the husband of gertrude léger -lrb- 1916-2011 -rrb- and the father of nine .
