Joseph-Alfred Mousseau

The Hon.
Joseph-Alfred Mousseau
6th Premier of Quebec
In office
July 29, 1882 – January 22, 1884
Monarch Victoria
Lieutenant Governor Théodore Robitaille
Preceded by Joseph-Adolphe Chapleau
Succeeded by John Jones Ross
MLA for Jacques-Cartier
In office
August 26, 1882 – January 22, 1884
Preceded by Narcisse Lecavalier
Succeeded by Arthur Boyer
Member of the Canadian Parliament
for Bagot
In office
January 22, 1874 – July 29, 1882
Preceded by Pierre-Samuel Gendron
Succeeded by Flavien Dupont
Personal details
Born (1837-07-17)July 17, 1837
Sainte-Geneviève-de-Berthier, Lower Canada
Died March 30, 1886(1886-03-30) (aged 47)
Montreal, Quebec
Political party Conservative Party of Quebec
Other political
affiliations		 Conservative
Spouse(s) Hersélie Desrosiers (m. 1862)
Relations Joseph Octave Mousseau, brother
Cabinet Attorney General (1882–1884)
President of the Privy Council (1880–1881)
Secretary of State of Canada (1881–1882)
Religion Roman Catholic

Joseph-Alfred Mousseau, PC (July 17, 1837 – March 30, 1886), was a French Canadian politician, who served in the federal Cabinet and also as Premier of Quebec.

He was born in Sainte-Geneviève-de-Berthier, Lower Canada, the son of Louis Mousseau, the son of Alexis Mousseau, and Sophie Duteau, dit Grandpré. Mousseau was first elected to the Canadian House of Commons as a Conservative Member of Parliament in the 1874 election for the riding of Bagot, and was re-elected three times. In 1880, he was elevated to the Cabinet of Prime Minister Sir John A. Macdonald, serving first as president of the Queen's Privy Council of Canada, and then as Secretary of State for Canada.

Mousseau left federal politics to become the sixth Premier of the province of Quebec from July 31, 1882, until his resignation on January 22, 1884, after being appointed as a judge. He died in Montreal in 1886.

His brother Joseph Octave Mousseau was also a member of the Canadian House of Commons.

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