Adelard Godbout

Joseph-Adelard Godbout was a Canadian agronomist and politician who served as the 15th premier of Quebec, briefly in 1936 and then again from 1939 to 1944, while leading the Parti Liberal du Quebec from 1936 to 1949. Trained as an agronomist before entering politics, he brought that professional background directly into government, and his premiership is remembered for major agricultural and social reforms including the founding of agricultural credit institutions to help Quebec farm families finance land and equipment, alongside his government's extension of the right to vote to women in provincial elections in 1940. He was inducted into the Agricultural Hall of Fame of Quebec in 1992.