- Antoine Polette
Antoine Polette (
August 24 1807 –January 6 1887 ) was aQuebec lawyer, judge and political figure.He was born Antoine Paulet in Pointe-aux-Trembles,
Lower Canada in 1807 and studied at thePetit Séminaire de Québec . He articled in law atQuebec City , was admitted to the bar in 1828 and set up practice in Trois-Rivières. Polette served as warden for the county from 1842 to 1846 and then was mayor of Trois-Rivières from 1846 to 1853. He was elected to theLegislative Assembly of the Province of Canada for Trois-Rivières as a Reformer in an 1848 by-election held after the preceding general election was not completed in that riding. He was reelected in 1851 and 1854 and retired from politics in 1857. Although Polette had originally supported the government ofFrancis Hincks andAugustin-Norbert Morin , he participated in the defeat of this government in 1854 because of the unresolved issue of seigneurial tenure. In 1854, he was namedQueen's Counsel . Polette served as a judge in theQuebec Superior Court for Trois-Rivières district from 1860 to 1880 and was a member of the royal commission that investigated thePacific Scandal in 1873.He died in Trois-Rivières in 1887.
External links
* [http://www.biographi.ca/009004-119.01-e.php?&id_nbr=5770 Biography at the "Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online"]
* [http://www.assnat.qc.ca/FRA/Membres/notices/o-p/POLEA.htm Biography from Assemblée nationale du Québec (french)]
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