- Elzéar Bédard
Elzéar Bédard, (
24 July 1799 –11 August 1849 ), was a lawyer and a member of theLegislative Assembly of Lower Canada . He later became a judge.He was born at
Quebec City in 1799, the son ofPierre-Stanislas Bédard . Bédard received a typical education for the time which he completed in 1818, He then pursued a career in the priesthood but abandoned this and in 1819 articled to become a lawyer which took place in 1824. By 1830, he was involved in provincial politics and ran unsuccessfully in Kamouraska. He won a by-election in 1832 for Montmorency, a riding left vacant byPhilippe Panet . He aligned himself withLouis-Joseph Papineau 's Patriote party program and in 1834 was the member who introduced theNinety-Two Resolutions , although likely he did not have a significant role in the preparation.He was the first mayor of Quebec City, (1833-1834), but lost the next election to
René-Édouard Caron . A close friend and supporter of Lord Gosford, he was appointed a judge of the Court of King's Bench in 1836, an appointment that was called bribery by his radical adversaries in the Patriote party.Bédard was a political moderate at a time when a more extreme outlook was held by most politicians and this stance brought him some adversity and misfortune during his political life.
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* [http://www.biographi.ca/009004-119.01-e.php?&id_nbr=3283 Biography at "the Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online"]
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