Flavien Dupont was a notary and political figure in Quebec

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. He represented Bagot

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Bagot is a former provincial electoral district in the province of Quebec, Canada. Created in 1867, the Estrie region district existed until 1972, when it was included in the new riding of Johnson in honour of former Quebec Premier Daniel Johnson who was a Member of the Legislative and National...

 in the Legislative Assembly of Quebec

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 from 1876 to 1878 and Bagot

Bagot (electoral district)

Bagot was a federal electoral district in Quebec, Canada, that was represented in the Canadian House of Commons from 1867 to 1935.It was created by the British North America Act of 1867, and was amalgamated into the St...

 in the Canadian House of Commons

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 from 1882 to 1898 as a Conservative

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 member.

He was born in Saint-Simon

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, Canada East

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, the son of Flavien Dupont and Nathalie Fournier. Dupont was educated at the Séminaire de Saint-Hyacinthe, was admitted as a notary in 1873 and set up practice at Saint-Liboire

Saint-Liboire, Quebec

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. He served as secretary-treasurer for Bagot County from 1874 to 1898 and was also secretary-treasurer for the Society for Agriculture and Colonization of Bagot County. Dupont was elected to the provincial assembly in an 1876 by-election held after his uncle Pierre-Samuel Gendron

Pierre-Samuel Gendron

Pierre-Samuel Gendron was a Quebec notary and political figure. He represented Bagot in the Canadian House of Commons as a Conservative from 1867 to 1874 and in the Legislative Assembly of Quebec from 1867 to 1876....

 was named prothonotary

Prothonotary

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 for the Quebec Superior Court; he was defeated when he ran for reelection in 1878. He was elected to the House of Commons in an 1882 by-election held after Joseph-Alfred Mousseau

Joseph-Alfred Mousseau

Joseph-Alfred Mousseau, PC , was a French Canadian politician.He was born in Sainte-Geneviève-de-Berthier, Lower Canada, the son of Louis Mousseau, the son of Alexis Mousseau, and Sophie Duteau, dit Grandpré...

 became Quebec premier. He died in office in Sherbrooke at the age of 51.