Simon-Napoléon Parent facts for kids

Quick facts for kids The Honourable Simon-Napoléon Parent KC
12th Premier of Quebec
In office October 3, 1900 – March 21, 1905
Monarch	Victoria Edward VII
Lieutenant Governor	Louis-Amable Jetté
Preceded by	Félix-Gabriel Marchand
Succeeded by	Lomer Gouin
MNA for Saint-Sauveur
In office June 17, 1890 – July 31, 1905
Preceded by	District created
Succeeded by	Charles-Eugène Côté
23rd Mayor of Quebec City
In office April 2, 1894 – January 12, 1906
Preceded by	Jules-Joseph-Taschereau Frémont
Succeeded by	Georges Tanguay
Personal details
Born	12 September 1855 Quebec City, Canada East
Died	7 September 1920(1920-09-07) (aged 64) Montreal, Quebec
Political party	Liberal
Spouse	Clara Gendron ​ (m. 1877)​
Children	13
Profession	lawyer

Simon-Napoléon Parent, KC (September 12, 1855 – September 7, 1920) was the 12th premier of Quebec from October 3, 1900 to March 21, 1905, as well as serving as President of the Quebec Bridge and Railway Company.

Background

Parent was born in Quebec City. He was a lawyer by profession, and his son, Georges Parent, was an MP in the House of Commons of Canada and later a Senator who served as Speaker of the Senate of Canada.

Political career

Parent ran as a Liberal candidate in the district of Saint-Sauveur in the 1890 election and won. He was re-elected in 1892 and 1897.

He resigned in 1897 when he was appointed to Félix-Gabriel Marchand’s Cabinet but was re-elected in the subsequent by-election, as well as in 1900 and 1904. Marchand died in office on September 25, 1900, and Parent succeeded him. He won the 1900 election and the 1904 election and resigned in 1905 when 44 Liberal MLAs, led by Lomer Gouin, Adélard Turgeon and William Alexander Weir, pressured him to resign.

Parent also served as mayor of Quebec City from 1894 to 1906.

Death

He died in Montreal in 1920.

See also

• Politics of Quebec
• List of Quebec general elections
• Timeline of Quebec history