Édouard Caron
Canadian politician
Édouard Caron was a politician in the Quebec, Canada, who served as Member of the Legislative Assembly.[1]
Early life
He was born on April 22, 1830, in Louiseville, Mauricie.
City Politics
He served as Mayor of Louiseville (then known as Rivière-du-Loup) in 1874.
Provincial Politics
Caron, ran as a Conservative candidate in the district of Maskinongé in 1867, but was defeated.
He won a seat to the Legislative Assembly of Quebec in 1878 in the same district and was re-elected in 1881 and 1886.
His last re-election though was declared void in 1887. A by-election was called to settle the matter in 1888, which Caron lost against candidate Joseph-Hormisdas Legris of Honoré Mercier's Parti National.
Death
He died on February 25, 1900.
Footnotes
- ^ "Biography". Dictionnaire des parlementaires du Québec de 1792 à nos jours (in French). National Assembly of Quebec.
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| Preceded by Moïse Houde, Conservative | MLA, District of Maskinongé 1878–1887 | Succeeded by Joseph-Hormisdas Legris, Parti National |
External links
- Biography at the Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online
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