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Joseph-Ernest Grégoire
Joseph-Ernest Grégoire
Member of the Legislative Assembly of Quebec for Montmagny
	In office; 1935–1939
Preceded by	Charles-Abraham Paquet
Succeeded by	Fernand Choquette
Mayor of Quebec City
	In office; 1934–1938
Preceded by	Henri-Edgar Lavigueur
Succeeded by	Lucien-Hubert Borne
Personal details
Born	July 31, 1886; Disraëli, Quebec
Died	September 17, 1980 (aged 94); Quebec City, Quebec

Joseph-Ernest Grégoire CBE (French pronunciation: [ʒozɛf ɛʁnɛst ɡʁeɡwaʁ]; July 31, 1886 – September 17, 1980) was a French Canadian politician.^[1]

Background

He was born in Disraeli, Quebec on July 31, 1886. He was an attorney and a professor. Member of the Barreau du Quebec in 1913, he practised law from 1938 to 1966.

Mayor of Quebec

Grégoire ran for mayor in Quebec City in 1934 and won, defeating Pierre Bertrand. He was reelected in the 1936 election, defeating Lucien Borne. He ran again in the 1938 election, but this time he was defeated by Lucien Borne.

Member of the legislature

He was elected as the Action libérale nationale candidate to the Legislative Assembly of Quebec in 1935 in the riding of Montmagny. He was re-elected in 1936 as the Union Nationale candidate.

In 1937, he and colleagues René Chaloult, Oscar Drouin, Philippe Hamel and Adolphe Marcoux left the Union Nationale. They founded a short-lived party that was called Parti national.^[2] Grégoire did not run for re-election in 1939.