Background
Jacques Miquelon was born on October 4, 1911 in Danville, Canada; the son of Arsène-Cyr Miquelon and Éveline Picard.
Jacques Miquelon was born on October 4, 1911 in Danville, Canada; the son of Arsène-Cyr Miquelon and Éveline Picard.
Miquelon was educated in Danville, at the Séminaire de Québec and at the Université Laval. He was admitted to the bar in 1934.
Jacques Miquelon set up practice first at Quebec City and then, in 1937, at Malartic. Miquelon served as solicitor for the Department of the Attorney General and for the Liquor Commission at Amos. He was director for two mining companies and also was president of the Chamber of Commerce for Malartic.
In 1946, he was named King"s Counsel.
Miquelon served in the Quebec cabinet as Minister of State from 1952 to 1959, Attorney General in 1959 and 1960 and Minister of Lands and Forests in 1960. He was defeated when he ran for reelection in 1960 and 1962.
In 1962, Miquelon returned to the practice of law in Montreal. From 1968 to 1978, he was judge in the Social Welfare Court at Montreal.