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Maurice Duplessis
Maurice Le Noblet Duplessis
(; 20 April 1890 – 7 September 1959) served as the
16th
Premier
of the
Canadian
province of
Quebec
from 1936 to 1939 and 1944 to 1959. He rose to power after uniting his
Conservative
party and the breakaway
Action liberale nationale
progressive faction of the
Liberal
party of Premier
Louis-Alexandre Taschereau
, to form a new conservative party, the
Union Nationale
.
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