Jean-Baptiste Morin | |
Constituency Mp: | Dorchester |
Parliament: | Canadian |
Term Start: | 1896 |
Term End: | 1908 |
Predecessor: | Cyrille-Émile Vaillancourt |
Successor: | Joseph Alfred Ernest Roy |
Birth Date: | 22 September 1840 |
Birth Place: | Sainte-Hénédine, Lower Canada |
Party: | Conservative |
Jean-Baptiste Morin (September 22, 1840 - February 20, 1911) was a Canadian politician.
Born in Sainte-Hénédine, Dorchester County, Lower Canada, Morin moved to the United States in 1856 and lived there for thirty-two years. Returning to Quebec, he was Warden of the County of Dorchester and President of the School Commissioners in Sainte-Hénédine. He was a J.P. and was elected Mayor of Sainte-Hénédine in 1889. He was first elected to the House of Commons of Canada for the electoral district of Dorchester in the general elections of 1896. A Conservative, he was re-elected in 1900 and 1904.