predecessor successor death_date birth_place death_place party office birth_date term_start image article_title term_end name
joseph dumont charles-alfred desjardins 11 june 1901 rivière-ouelle , lower canada quebec city , quebec liberal member of the legislative assembly of quebec for kamouraska 04 december 1846 1878 charles-antoine-ernest gagnon.png charles-antoine-ernest gagnon
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charles-antoine-ernest gagnon

charles-antoine-ernest gagnon -lrb- december 4 , 1846 -- june 11 , 1901 -rrb- was a notary , author and political figure in quebec .
he represented kamouraska in the legislative assembly of quebec from 1878 to 1890 as a liberal .
he was born in rivière-ouelle , canada east , the son of antoine gagnon and julie-adèle pelletier , who was the sister of charles-alphonse-pantaléon pelletier .
he was educated at the collège de sainte-anne-de-la-pocatière and was licensed as a notary in 1869 , setting up practice at rivière-ouelle and later at quebec city .
gagnon also served as secretary-treasurer for the municipality and for the school board .
gagnon married marie-malvina gagnon in 1870 .
he helped found the quebec city newspaper `` l'Électeur '' in 1880 .
gagnon also served on the editorial committee for `` nouvelles soirées canadiennes '' and `` la kermesse '' .
his election in 1881 was overturned in 1883 but he won the subsequent by-election .
he served in the provincial cabinet as provincial secretary and registrar from 1887 to 1890 .
gagnon was sheriff for quebec district from 1890 to 1901 .
he contributed to the `` bibliothèque internationale de l'alliance scientifique universelle '' .
he was president of the quebec board of notaries from 1885 to 1890 .
gagnon died in quebec city at the age of 54 and was buried in rivière-ouelle .
