Thomas Linière Taschereau (October 8, 1850 – May 29, 1901) was a lawyer and political figure in Quebec. He represented Beauce

Beauce (electoral district)

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 in the Canadian House of Commons

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 from 1884 to 1887 as a Conservative Party of Canada

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 member. His name appears in some sources as Jean-Thomas Linière Taschereau or Linière Taschereau.

He was born in Sainte-Marie

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, Canada East

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, the son of seigneur

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 Thomas-Jacques Taschereau and Marie Anne Amable Fleury de la Gorgendière. Taschereau was educated at Ste. Anne de la Pocatiere, the Collège Sainte-Marie

Collège Sainte-Marie

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 in Montreal

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 and Université Laval

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. He entered the practice of law at Saint-Joseph-de-Beauce

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 in 1873 and was named crown prosecutor for the Beauce district in 1881. He married Annie Breakey, the widow of William Berry, in 1874; she died the following year. In 1877, he married Mary, the daughter of Charles Joseph Alleyn

Charles Joseph Alleyn

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. Taschereau was mayor of Saint-Joseph-de-Beauce from 1891 to 1893. He was first elected to the House of Commons in an 1884 by-election held after Joseph Bolduc

Joseph Bolduc

Joseph Bolduc, PC was Speaker of the Canadian Senate from 1916 to 1922.He was born in Beauce County, Canada East in 1847, the son of Augustin Bolduc, and was educated at College Sainte-Marie and Université Laval. He graduated as a public notary in 1874 but also earned his living as a farmer and...

 was named to the Senate. Taschereau ran unsuccessfully in the federal riding of Kamouraska

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 in 1896 and 1900. He died of heart disease in Quebec City

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 at the age of 50.

His daughter Zoé-Mary Stella married Eugène Fiset

Eugène Fiset

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who later served as lieutenant-governor of Quebec.