Flavien Dupont Explained

Flavien Dupont
Constituency Mp:Bagot
Parliament:Canadian
Predecessor:Joseph-Alfred Mousseau
Successor:Joseph Edmond Marcile
Term Start:1882
Term End:1898
Office2:Member of the Legislative Assembly of Quebec for Bagot
Predecessor2:Pierre-Samuel Gendron
Successor2:Narcisse Blais
Term Start2:1876
Term End2:1878
Birth Date:13 February 1847
Birth Place:Saint-Simon, Canada East
Death Place:Sherbrooke, Quebec
Party:Conservative
Otherparty:Quebec Conservative Party
Relations:Pierre-Samuel Gendron, uncle

Flavien Dupont (February 13, 1847  - March 12, 1898) was a Canadian notary and political figure in Quebec. He represented Bagot in the Legislative Assembly of Quebec from 1876 to 1878 and Bagot in the House of Commons of Canada from 1882 to 1898 as a Conservative member.

Life

He was born in Saint-Simon, Canada East, the son of Flavien Dupont and Nathalie Fournier. Dupont was educated at the Séminaire de Saint-Hyacinthe, was admitted as a notary in 1873 and set up practice at Saint-Liboire. He served as secretary-treasurer for Bagot County from 1874 to 1898 and was also secretary-treasurer for the Society for Agriculture and Colonization of Bagot County. Dupont was elected to the provincial assembly in an 1876 by-election held after his uncle Pierre-Samuel Gendron was named prothonotary for the Quebec Superior Court; he was defeated when he ran for reelection in 1878. He was elected to the House of Commons in an 1882 by-election held after Joseph-Alfred Mousseau became Quebec premier. He died in office in Sherbrooke at the age of 51.

Electoral record

|Conservative|Flavien Dupont|align="right"|1,408|Unknown|O. Desmarais|align="right"|1,107