- Candide Rochefort
Candide Rochefort was a politician
Quebec ,Canada and a Member of theLegislative Assembly of Quebec (MLA). [ [http://www.assnat.qc.ca/fra/membres/notices/q-r/rochc.htm Biography of Candide Rochefort, Assemblée nationale du Québec] ]Early life
He was born on
February 8 ,1904 inSalaberry-de-Valleyfield, Quebec and became a brick mason.City politics
Rochefort ran for
Mayor of Montreal in 1936 and 1938 and each time finished a distant third.Member of the Legislature
He ran as an
Action libérale nationale candidate in the district of in the district of Montréal-Sainte-Marie in the 1935 provincial election and won against Liberal incumbentGaspard Fauteux . Rochefort joinedMaurice Duplessis 's Union Nationale and was re-elected in the 1936 election. He was defeated byMayor of Montreal Camillien Houde in the 1939 election.Death
He died on
June 24 ,1971 inMontreal .Footnotes
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