Jean-Baptiste Taché was a notary

Civil law notary

Civil-law notaries, or Latin notaries, are lawyers of noncontentious private civil law who draft, take, and record legal instruments for private parties, provide legal advice and give attendance in person, and are vested as public officers with the authentication power of the State...

 and political figure in Lower Canada

Lower Canada

The Province of Lower Canada was a British colony on the lower Saint Lawrence River and the shores of the Gulf of Saint Lawrence...

. He represented Cornwallis from 1820 to 1824 and Rimouski from 1834 until the suspension of the constitution in 1838 in the Legislative Assembly of Lower Canada

Legislative Assembly of Lower Canada

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. Taché served as a member of the special council

Special Council of Lower Canada

The Special Council of Lower Canada was an appointed body which administered Lower Canada until the Union Act of 1840 created the Province of Canada. Following the Lower Canada Rebellion, on March 27, 1838, the Constitutional Act of 1791 was suspended and both the Legislative Assembly and...

 that governed Lower Canada from 1839 to 1841 and was a member of the Legislative Council of the Province of Canada

Legislative Council of the Province of Canada

The Legislative Council of the Province of Canada was the upper house for the Province of Canada, which consisted of the former provinces of Lower Canada, then known as Canada East and later the province of Quebec, and Upper Canada, then known as Canada West and later the province of Ontario...

 from 1841 to 1849.

He was born in Saint-Thomas

Montmagny, Quebec

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, the son of Charles Taché and Geneviève Michon, and was educated at the Petit Séminaire de Québec

Petit Séminaire de Québec

Le Petit Séminaire de Québec is a private French-language Roman Catholic secondary school in the Vieux-Québec area of Quebec City which was originally part of the Séminaire de Québec...

. Taché apprenticed as a notary, was licensed in 1811 and set up practice in Kamouraska

Kamouraska, Quebec

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. In 1824, he married Charlotte, the daughter of John Mure

John Mure

John Mure was a businessman and political figure in Lower Canada.He was born in Scotland around 1776, probably in Kilmarnock parish, and had arrived in Montreal by 1782. In 1778, he was hired by James Tod as a clerk at Quebec City. He later went into business on his own, involved in the fur trade...

. He did not run for re-election to the assembly in 1824. In 1842, he was named registrar for Kamouraska County. Taché died in office at Kamouraska at the age of 63.

His uncle Pascal Taché

Pascal Taché

Pascal Taché, , was the son of Jean Taché, a successful merchant and trader and the patriarch of this important Canadian family....

 also served in the assembly. His brother Étienne-Paschal

Étienne-Paschal Taché

Sir Étienne-Paschal Taché was a Canadian doctor, politician and one of the Fathers of Confederation.Born in St. Thomas, Lower Canada, in 1795, the third son of Charles Taché and Geneviève Michon, Taché studied at the Séminaire de Québec until the War of 1812 when he joined the 5th battalion of the...

 and his nephew Joseph-Charles Taché

Joseph-Charles Taché

Joseph-Charles Taché, was a multi-faceted member of the Taché family, a nephew of Sir Étienne-Paschal Taché...

served in the assembly for the Province of Canada; his brother later became one of the Fathers of Confederation.