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Godbout became Premier of Quebec after the retirement of Louis-Alexandre Taschereau on June 27, 1936. Soon after, he lost the August 1936 election to the Union Nationale party of Maurice Duplessis. Godbout returned to power in the 1939 election.
He is remembered for passing laws that granted women the right to vote, and that enforced compulsory school attendance until the age of 14. His government also nationalized electric companies in MontrealMontreal (/mVn. tri"Al/ in English, /mO~. re"al/ in French) is the largest city in the province of Quebec, Canada, where it also constitutes an administrative region. It is Canada's second most populous city after Toronto ( Statistics Canada), and the sec to create Hydro-QuébecHydro-Quebec was originally created by Premier Adelard Godbout on April 14 1944 in a partial nationalization of electricity companies around Montreal, notably Montreal Light, Heat and Power. The full name was "Quebec Hydro-Electric Commission", but the na, the public institution that was later greatly expanded by René LévesqueRene Levesque ( August 24, 1922 November 1, 1987), was a reporter, a minister of the government of the Canadian province of Quebec ( 1960 1966), the founder of the Parti Quebecois political party, and Prime Minister of Quebec ( November 25, 1976 October 3 during the Quiet RevolutionJean Lesage, Daniel Johnson Sr. and Rene Levesque, three prominent actors of the Quiet Revolution. The Quiet Revolution Revolution tranquille was a period of rapid change in Quebec in the 1960s. It was characterized by: The rapid and effective secularisat.
In the 1944 election, he was once again defeated by Maurice Duplessis. His support for Canadian prime minister William Lyon Mackenzie KingWilliam Lyon Mackenzie King Rank 10th Date of Birth December 17, 1874 Place of Birth Kitchener, Ontario Marriage never married Profession lawyer Political Party Liberal Party of Canada William Lyon Mackenzie King ( December 17, 1874 July 22, 1950) was the on the issue of conscriptionThe Conscription Crisis of 1944 was a political and military crisis in Canada during World War II. It was related to the Conscription Crisis of 1917, but was not as politically damaging. Background Canada declared war on Germany on September 10, 1939, and of soldiers to serve in the Canadian armed forces in World War II was very unpopular in Quebec.
Godbout remained as Leader of the OppositionThe Leader of the Opposition is a title traditionally held by the leader of the largest opposition party in a Westminster System of parliamentary government. The Leader of the Opposition is invariably seen as the alternative Prime Minister to the present until the 1948 election, in which he narrowly lost his own seat. In 1949, Godbout was appointed to the Canadian Senate by Canadian Prime Minister Louis St. Laurent. He remained a senator until his death in 1956.
In 2000, a documentary was made my his nephew and renown filmmaker Jacques Godbout, entitled Traître ou Patriote.