Henry George Carroll, QC

Queen's Counsel

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 (January 31, 1865 – August 20, 1939) was a Canadian politician, jurist and the 16th Lieutenant Governor of Quebec

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 from 1929 to 1934 and the last anglophone to serve in that position to the present day.

Born in Kamouraska

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, Canada East

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, Carroll studied law at Laval University, was called to the bar in 1889, and was created a Queen's Counsel

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 in 1899.

A Liberal

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, he was first elected to the Canadian House of Commons

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 in 1891 representing Kamouraska

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 and was re-elected in 1896 and 1900. He was appointed Solicitor General of Canada

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 in 1902 and served until 1904 at a time when the position was not a cabinet office but was part of the ministry

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. He left politics to become a judge in the Quebec Superior Court in 1904 and was appointed to the Court of King's Bench in 1908. In 1912 he served as chairman of Quebec's Royal Commission

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examining the alcohol trade and subsequently served as vice-president province's liquor commission from 1921 to 1929 when he was appointed lieutenant-governor.