Alexandre Lacoste

The Honourable Sir Alexandre Lacoste
Senator for De Lorimier, Quebec
In office January 11, 1884 – September 15, 1891
Appointed by	John A. Macdonald
Preceded by	Jacques-Olivier Bureau
Succeeded by	Alphonse Desjardins
Member of the Legislative Council of Quebec for Mille-Isles
In office March 4, 1882 – December 6, 1883
Preceded by	Jean-Baptiste Lefebvre de Villemure
Succeeded by	Charles Champagne
Personal details
Born	(1842-01-13)January 13, 1842 Boucherville, Canada East
Died	August 17, 1923(1923-08-17) (aged 81) Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Political party	Conservative
Relations	Louis Lacoste, father
Children	Justine Lacoste-Beaubien
Portfolio	Speaker of the Senate (April 27, 1891 – September 15, 1891)

Sir Alexandre Lacoste, PC (January 13, 1842 – August 17, 1923) was a Canadian lawyer, professor, and politician.

He was born in Boucherville, Canada East (now Quebec), in 1842, the son of Louis Lacoste. From 1880 to 1923, he was a professor of law at the Université de Montréal.

In 1882, he was appointed to the Legislative Council of Quebec. In 1884, he was called to the Senate of Canada representing the senatorial division of De Lorimier, Quebec. A Conservative, in April 1891, he was appointed Speaker of the Senate and served until he resigned from the Senate in September 1891 when he was appointed Chief Justice of the Court of Queen's Bench of Quebec. He retired in 1907. In 1892, he was made a Knight Bachelor. He died in Montreal in 1923 and he was entombed at the Notre Dame des Neiges Cemetery in Montreal.^[1]

Family

Lady Marie Louise Lacoste (née Globensky) by Arless, Montreal

Lady Lacoste was member of the First presidential board, Fédération nationale Saint-Jean-Baptiste, Montréal, 1907

Lacoste in later life; painting by Joseph-Charles Franchère, 1913

Alexandre Lacoste married Marie-Louise Globensky, daughter of Leon Globensky, of Montreal on May 8, 1866. She was member of the First presidential board, Fédération nationale Saint-Jean-Baptiste, Montréal, 1907. She was a member of the Advisory Board of the Parks and Playgrounds Association of Montreal.

The couple's eldest son, Louis Joseph Lacoste, married Bertha Louisa, daughter of M. S. Foley, Esquire, editor-proprietor of the Journal of Commerce. Marie, their eldest daughter, wrote legal text-books and married an advocate, Henri Gerin-Lajoie.

Blanche, their second daughter, married Joseph P. Landry, son of Senator Landry. Another daughter, Justine, married Louis de Gaspe, son of Hon. Louis Beaubien. Justine Lacoste-Beaubien was a founder of the children's hospital Sainte-Justine Hospital.^[2]

References

1. Répertoire des personnages inhumés au cimetière ayant marqué l'histoire de notre société (in French). Montreal: Notre Dame des Neiges Cemetery.
2. Morgan, Henry James, ed. (1903). Types of Canadian Women and of Women who are or have been Connected with Canada. Toronto: Williams Briggs. p. 191.

• Normand, Sylvio (2005). "Lacoste, Sir Alexandre". In Cook, Ramsay; Bélanger, Réal (eds.). Dictionary of Canadian Biography. Vol. XV (1921–1930) (online ed.). University of Toronto Press.
• "Speakers of the Senate". Library of Parliament. Retrieved 2023-11-16.

External links

• Alexandre Lacoste – Parliament of Canada biography
• "Biography of Alexandre Lacoste". Dictionnaire des parlementaires du Québec de 1792 à nos jours (in French). National Assembly of Quebec.