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Joseph Julien Jean-Pierre Côté PC OC (January 9, 1926 – July 10, 2002) was a Canadian parliamentarian and the 23rd Lieutenant Governor of Quebec.

Early life

Born in Montreal, Quebec, the son of Émile Côté and Cédia Roy, he studied to be a dental technician at the École technique de denturologie in Montreal.

Member of Parliament

In the 1963 federal elections, he was elected in the riding of Longueuil as the Liberal candidate. He was re-elected in 1965 and 1968. He held quite a few ministerial positions including Postmaster General, Minister of National Revenue, Minister without Portfolio, and Minister of Communications (Acting). He did not run for re-election in 1972.

Senate of Canada

In 1972, he was appointed to the senate representing the senatorial division of Kennebec, Quebec. He resigned in 1978.

Lieutenant Governor of Quebec

In 1978, he was appointed Lieutenant Governor of Quebec. He served until 1984.

Family

On July 31, 1948, he married Marie Anne Germaine Tremblay (17 September 1922 - 31 January 2011). They had eight children together: Andrée, Gilbert, Danielle, Robert, Paul, Hélène, Jocelyne, Isabelle.^[1]

Honours

He was sworn in as a Member of the Queen's Privy Council for Canada on 18 December 1965. This gave him the right to the honorific prefix "The Honourable" and the post nominal letters "PC" for life.
In 1992, he was made an Officer of the Order of Canada giving him the post nominal letters "OC".
In 2002 he was given the Canadian version of the Queen Elizabeth II Golden Jubilee Medal.

Artist

He was also an accomplished landscape painter.^[2] His paintings are quite sought after.^[3]

References

External links

[1] Genealogy Jean-Pierre Côté

[2] Canadian Heritage Information Network - Jean-Pierre Côté

[3] The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts - Documentary Resources

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Lieutenant-governors of Quebec
Post-Confederation (1867–present)	Belleau Caron Saint-Just Robitaille Masson Angers Chapleau Jetté Pelletier Langelier Leblanc Fitzpatrick Brodeur Pérodeau Gouin Carroll Patenaude Fiset Fauteux Gagnon Comtois Lapointe Côté Lamontagne Asselin Roux Thibault Duchesne Doyon Jeannotte
Province of Canada (1841–66)*	Clitherow Jackson Bagot Fernhill Cathcart Elgin Head Monck
Lower Canada (1791–1841)	Carleton (cont'd from 1791) Prescott Milnes Dunn Craig Prévost Drummond Wilson Sherbrooke Richmond Dalhousie Aylmer Gosford Colborne Durham Sydenham
British Province of Quebec (1759–91)*	Amherst Murray Carleton Haldimand Carleton (2nd time)
The Crown's representative from 1759 to 1791, and from 1841 to 1866 held the office and rank of Governor-General

Ministers of National Revenue
Ministers of Customs and Inland Revenue (1918–21)	Sifton Reid (acting) Burrell Wigmore
Ministers of Customs and Excise (1921–27)	Wigmore Baxter Bureau Boivin Stevens Euler
Ministers of National Revenue (1927–present)	Euler Ryckman Matthews Lawson Ilsley Gibson MacKinnon (acting) D. MacLaren MacKinnon (acting) McCann Nowlan Flemming Garland McIlraith Benson Chrétien Côté Gray Stanbury Basford Cullen Bégin Guay Abbott Baker Rompkey Bussières R. MacLaren Beatty MacKay Jelinek Turner Anderson Stewart Dhaliwal Cauchon Caplan Keyes McCallum Skelton O'Connor Blackburn Ashfield Shea Findlay Lebouthillier Bibeau

Ministers of Communications
Kierans Côté Pelletier Stanbury Pelletier Juneau Lang Sauvé D. MacDonald Fox Lumley Masse Bouchard Masse F. MacDonald Murray Masse Beatty Landry Dupuy Copps Robillard Copps¹
¹The offices of Minister of Communications, and Minister of Multiculturalism and Citizenship were abolished and the office of Minister of Canadian Heritage came in force July 12, 1996.