death_date death_place successor birth_place appointed children party office birth_date term_start image article_title term_end name
24 september 1881 quebec city , quebec jean-charles chapais cap-saint-ignace , lower canada royal proclamation joseph-guillaume bossé conservative senator for de la durantaye , quebec 25 december 1807 october 23 , 1867 noël bossé.jpg joseph-noël bossé
 january 1 , 1868 joseph-noël bossé
joseph-noël bossé

joseph-noël bossé -lrb- december 25 , 1807 -- september 24 , 1881 -rrb- was a quebec lawyer , judge and political figure .
he was a conservative party of canada member of the senate of canada for de la durantaye division from 1867 to 1868 .
he was born at cap-saint-ignace , lower canada in 1806 and studied at the petit séminaire de québec .
he apprenticed in law with andré-rémi hamel , was admitted to the bar in 1833 and set up practice in quebec city .
he served on the small claims court for the Îles de la madeleine .
he also prepared a report on the state of the fisheries in the gulf of saint lawrence .
bossé was elected to the legislative council of the province of canada in an 1864 by-election held after the death of françois-xavier lemieux and served until confederation when he was named to the senate .
in 1867 , he was named queen 's counsel .
bossé also served as lieutenant-colonel of the local militia from 1863 to 1869 .
in 1868 , he resigned his seat in the senate when he was named puisne judge in the quebec superior court .
he died at quebec city in 1881 .
