{{Short description|Canadian politician (1842–1923)}} {{Use Canadian English|date=January 2023}} {{Infobox officeholder | honorific_prefix = The Honourable | name = Sir Alexandre Lacoste | honorific_suffix = {{Post-nominals|country=CAN|PC}} | image = AlexandreLacoste23.jpg | image_size = | office1 = Senator for De Lorimier, Quebec | appointer1 = John A. Macdonald | predecessor1 = Jacques-Olivier Bureau | successor1 = Alphonse Desjardins | term_start1 = January 11, 1884 | term_end1 = September 15, 1891 | office2 = Member of the Legislative Council of Quebec for Mille-Isles | predecessor2 = Jean-Baptiste Lefebvre de Villemure | successor2 = Charles Champagne | term_start2 = March 4, 1882 | term_end2 = December 6, 1883 | portfolio = {{nowrap|Speaker of the Senate (April 27, 1891 – September 15, 1891)}} | module = {{infobox person | embed = yes | birth_date = {{birth date|1842|01|13}} | birth_place = Boucherville, Canada East | death_date = {{death date and age|1923|08|17|1842|01|13}} | death_place = Montreal, Quebec, Canada | spouse = {{marriage|Marie-Louise Globensky|May 8, 1866|December 11, 1919|end=died}} | political_party = Conservative | father = Louis Lacoste | relatives = Justine Lacoste-Beaubien (daughter)<br>Marie Lacoste Gérin-Lajoie (daughter) | residence = | alma_mater = | occupation = Academic | profession = <!--| religion = Roman Catholic--> }} }}
'''Sir Alexandre Lacoste''', {{Post-nominals|country=CAN|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.<ref>{{Cite book|title=Répertoire des personnages inhumés au cimetière ayant marqué l'histoire de notre société|publisher=Notre Dame des Neiges Cemetery|location=Montreal|language=fr}}</ref>
==Family== thumb|Lady Marie Louise Lacoste (née Globensky) by Arless, Montreal thumb|Lady Lacoste was member of the First presidential board, Fédération nationale Saint-Jean-Baptiste, Montréal, 1907 thumb|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.<ref>{{cite book |editor-last=Morgan |editor-first=Henry James |editor-link=Henry James Morgan |title=Types of Canadian Women and of Women who are or have been Connected with Canada |location=Toronto |publisher=Williams Briggs |date=1903 |url=https://archive.org/details/typesofcanadianw01morguoft |page=[https://archive.org/details/typesofcanadianw01morguoft/page/191 191]}}</ref>
==References== {{Reflist}} * {{cite DCB |title= Lacoste, Sir Alexandre |first=Sylvio |last=Normand |volume=15 |url=http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/lacoste_alexandre_15E.html}} * {{cite web|url=https://lop.parl.ca/sites/ParlInfo/default/en_CA/People/OfficersParliament/politicalOfficersSenate/speakersSenate|title=Speakers of the Senate|work=Library of Parliament|access-date=2023-11-16}}
==External links== * {{Canadian Parliament links|ID=604}} * {{Quebec MLC biography|lacoste-alexandre-225|Alexandre Lacoste}}
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