Honoré Hippolyte Achille Gervais (August 13, 1864 – August 8, 1915) was a Canadian

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 lawyer, professor, politician.

Born in Richelieu

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, Rouville County, Canada East

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, the son of Charles Gervais and Adele Monty, Gervais was educated at the "Petit Seminaire" of Sainte-Marie-de-Monnoir and Université Laval

Université Laval

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 where he received a Master of Laws

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 (LL.M.) in 1887 and a Doctor of Laws (LL.D) in 1889. He was admitted to the Bar of the Province of Quebec on 13 January 1887 and created a Queen's Counsel

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 in 1897.

In 1896, he joined Université Laval as a Professor of International Law and Civil Procedure. He practiced law in partnership with Horace Archambault, former President of the Quebec Legislative Council and ex- Attorney-General, Henri-Benjamin Rainville

Henri-Benjamin Rainville

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, former Speaker of the Quebec Legislative Assembly, and Paul Rainville in the firm Rainville, Archambault, Gervais & Rainville.

He was first elected to the Canadian House of Commons

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 for the Montreal electoral district of St. James

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 in a 1904 by-election called after the 1902 by-election was declared void. A Liberal

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, he was re-elected in 1904

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 and 1908

Canadian federal election, 1908

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