- Albert Goudreau
Albert Goudreau was a
Canadian politician and a four-term Member of theLegislative Assembly of Quebec . [ [http://www.assnat.qc.ca/fra/membres/notices/g-i/gouda.htm Albert Goudreau, Assemblée nationale du Québec] ]Background
He was born in Asbestos, Eastern Townships on
February 4 ,1887 .City Councillor
Goudreau served as a city councillor in the township of Windsor from 1916 to 1918 and in the city of Asbestos from 1933 to 1944.
Member of the Legislature
Goudreau ran as a Conservative candidate in the provincial district of Richmond in the 1935 election and won against Liberal incumbent
Stanislas-Edmond Desmarais .He joined
Maurice Duplessis 's Union Nationale and was re-elected in the 1936 election, but was defeated in the 1939 election.He was re-elected in the 1944 and the 1948 elections, but was defeated by Liberal candidate
Émilien Lafrance in the 1952 election.Mayor
He served as Mayor of Asbestos from 1945 to 1950.
Death
He died on
October 12 ,1962 in Sherbrooke.Footnotes
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