Pierre de Bellefeuille

Pierre de Bellefeuille was a Canadian politician and a two-term Member of the National Assembly of Quebec. [ [http://www.assnat.qc.ca/fra/membres/notices/d/debep.htm Biography of Pierre de Bellefeuille, Assemblée nationale du Québec] ]

Background

He was born on May 12, 1923 in Ottawa, Ontario. He became an accountant.

Federal politics

De Bellefeuille ran as a New Democratic Party candidate in the 1972 election in the federal district of Ahuntsic. He finished second against Liberal candidate Jeanne Sauvé.

Member of the National Assembly

He ran as a Parti Québécois candidate in the 1976 election against Liberal incumbent Jean-Paul L'Allier in the provincial district of Deux-Montagnes and won. He served as a parliamentary assistant from 1976 to 1984.

He was re-elected in the 1981 election, but he crossed the floor during the Parti Québécois Crisis of 1984. He sat as an Independent by November 20, 1984 and became the first and only sitting Member of the Parti indépendantiste.

De Bellefeuille ran for re-election as a candidate of that party in the 1985 election. He finished third.

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