Anselme-Homère Pâquet Explained

Honorific-Prefix:The Hon.
Anselme-Homère Pâquet
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Office1:Member of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada for Berthier
Predecessor1:Pierre-Eustache Dostaler
Successor1:Institution abolished
Term Start1:1863
Term End1:1866
Constituency Mp2:Berthier
Parliament2:Canadian
Successor2:Edward Octavian Cuthbert
Term Start2:1867
Term End2:1875
Office3:Senator for De la Vallière, Quebec
Appointed3:Alexander Mackenzie
Predecessor3:Charles-Christophe Malhiot
Successor3:Auguste-Réal Angers
Term Start3:1875
Term End3:1891
Birth Date:29 September 1830
Birth Place:Saint-Cuthbert, Lower Canada
Death Place:Saint-Cuthbert, Quebec
Party:Liberal

Anselme-Homère Pâquet (29 September 1830  - 22 December 1891) was a Canadian physician, professor and parliamentarian. He served three terms as a Liberal Member of Parliament in the House of Commons of Canada representing the Quebec riding of Berthier.

He was born Michel-Anselme Pâquet in Saint-Cuthbert, Lower Canada in 1830. He studied at the Montreal School of Medicine and Surgery, qualified as a physician in 1853 and opened a practice in Saint-Cuthbert. By 1854, he had adopted the name Anselme-Homère. He was elected to the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada in 1863 for Berthier and served until Confederation. He opposed confederation. He was elected in the Canadian federal election of 1867, and was re-elected in 1872 and 1874. He resigned his seat in the House of Commons to accept an appointment to the Senate of Canada on 9 February 1875 on the recommendation of Alexander Mackenzie. He served in this capacity, representing the senatorial division of De la Vallière, Quebec, until his death in 1891. Pâquet also taught clinical medicine at the Hôtel-Dieu de Montréal and hygiene and public health at the Montreal School of Medicine.