Alexis Pierre Caron | |
Birth Date: | 8 March 1899 |
Birth Place: | Hull, Quebec, Canada |
Death Place: | Ottawa, Ontario, Canada |
Spouse: | Germaine Thibault (m. 10 September 1924) |
Office: | Member of the Legislative Assembly of Quebec for Hull |
Term Start: | 1935 |
Term End: | 1936 |
Predecessor: | Aimé Guertin |
Successor: | Alexandre Taché |
Term Start2: | 1939 |
Term End2: | 1944 |
Predecessor2: | Alexandre Taché |
Successor2: | Alexandre Taché |
Order3: | Mayor of Hull, Quebec |
Term Start3: | April 1953 |
Term End3: | April 1955 |
Constituency Mp4: | Hull |
Parliament4: | Canadian |
Term Start4: | August 1953 |
Term End4: | August 1966 |
Predecessor4: | Alphonse Fournier |
Successor4: | Pierre Caron |
Profession: | insurance broker |
Party: | Liberal |
Otherparty: | Quebec Liberal Party |
Portfolio: | Federal: Parliamentary Secretary to the Postmaster General (1964–1965) Parliamentary Secretary to the Prime Minister (1963–1964) |
Committees: | Federal: Chair, Standing Committee on Privileges and Elections (1963) |
Alexis Pierre Caron (8 March 1899 – 31 August 1966) was a Canadian politician. Caron was a Liberal Party member of the House of Commons of Canada. He was born in Hull, Quebec and became an insurance broker by career.
He was first elected to the Legislative Assembly of Quebec at the Hull provincial riding in 1935 for the Quebec Liberal Party, then defeated in 1936, returned in 1939, defeated again in 1944 and 1948.
Caron was mayor of Hull, Quebec from April 1953 to April 1955. During this time, he entered national politics by winning the Hull riding in the 1953 federal election. He was then re-elected there in the 1957, 1958, 1962, 1963 and 1965 federal elections. Caron ended his Parliamentary career in 1966 shortly before his death during his term in the 27th Canadian Parliament.
Caron was Liberal party whip in 1963.