About Adélard Godbout
Joseph-Adélard Godbout was a Canadian agronomist and politician. He served as the 15th premier of Quebec briefly in 1936, and again from 1939 to 1944, in addition to serving as the leader of the Parti Libéral du Québec (PLQ) from 1936 to 1949. Godbout became a Member of the legislature for the district of L'Islet in the Chaudière-Appalaches region after he won a by-election without opposition on May 13, 1929. But despite Godbout's talks of "a new order" in an effort to distance himself from the Taschereau era, his first government lasted only two months, as his party suffered a humiliating defeat in the 1936 election. World War II created the opportunity that Godbout needed to make a political comeback. Led by Duplessis, the recently created Union nationale was put in office.
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