predecessor successor death_date birth_place death_place office birth_date term_start image article_title term_end name
Émery-hector fortier louis-philippe brousseau 5 march 1974 sherbrooke , quebec sherbrooke , quebec member of the legislative assembly of quebec for sherbrooke 8 september 1894 1935 john samuel bourque.png john samuel bourque
 1960 john samuel bourque
john samuel bourque

john samuel bourque -lrb- september 8 , 1894 -- march 5 , 1974 -rrb- was a quebec politician , cabinet minister , military member and businessman .
he was the member of legislative assembly of quebec for the riding of sherbrooke for 25 years .
born in sherbrooke , quebec , bourque studied at the petit séminaire de saint-charles-borromée in sherbrooke , before being enrolled in the 22nd -lrb- french canadian -rrb- battalion , cef , as a soldier and sergeant where he participated in world war i in the united kingdom .
he was also a colonel , sergeant , major and lieutenant-colonel for the sherbrooke fusilliers .
he retired from the military service in 1943 .
while being in military duties , he was also a businessman running a lumber store .
bourque was first elected in 1935 as a member of the action libérale nationale which shortly after was merged with the quebec conservative party to form the union nationale .
he was re-elected for six additional terms until the 1960 elections in which he lost to the quebec liberal party candidate .
he served for several ministries in the maurice duplessis cabinet .
he was the minister of public works from 1936 to 1939 , minister of land and forests from 1938 to 1939 and from 1944 to 1958 , minister of hydraulic resources from 1945 to 1958 and minister of finances from 1958 to 1960 .
