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Apr 09, 1835 Sainte Thérèse, Quebec, Canada Died on 01 Jan 0001 (aged 1834)
Canadian politician
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About Alfred Lapointe
- Alfred Lapointe (9 April 1835 – 30 October 1915) was a farmer, miller and political figure in Quebec.
- He represented Vaudreuil in the Legislative Assembly of Quebec from 1884 to 1890 as a Conservative. He was born Alfred Godard in Sainte-Thérèse, Lower Canada, the son of Jean-Marie Godard and Émilie Tremblay, and educated at the Collège de Sainte-Thérèse.
- Lapointe owned flour and sawmills.
- He was a justice of the peace and a commissioner for the trial of small causes.
- Lapointe was mayor of Sainte-Justine-de-Newton in 1876, from 1881 to 1885 and from 1903 to 1906.
- He was married twice: to Marie Antoinette Léontine Tessier in 1868 and to Susanna Towner in 1878.
- He ran unsuccessfully for a seat in the House of Commons in 1872, 1882 and again in 1900.
- He was first elected to the Quebec assembly in an 1884 by-election held after the election of François-Xavier Archambault was overturned.
- He was reelected in 1886 but defeated when he ran again in 1890.
