Honorific-Prefix: | The Honourable |
Frédéric Liguori Béique | |
Office: | Senator for De Salaberry, Quebec |
Predecessor: | Joseph-Octave Villeneuve |
Successor: | Guillaume-André Fauteux |
Appointed: | Wilfrid Laurier |
Term Start: | 1902 |
Term End: | 1933 |
Birth Date: | 20 May 1845 |
Birth Place: | St-Mathias, Canada East |
Resting Place: | Notre Dame des Neiges Cemetery |
Party: | Liberal |
Committees: | Chair, Special Committee on Civil Service (1924) |
Frédéric Liguori Béique, (May 20, 1845 - September 12, 1933) was a Canadian lawyer and politician.
Born in Saint-Mathias, Quebec, he was trained as a lawyer and was called to the Quebec Bar in 1868.[1] On 15 April 1875 at Saint-Jacques Cathedral in Montreal, he married Carolina-Angélina Dessaulles, with whom he would have ten children[2] [3] From 1899 to 1905, he was the president of the Saint-Jean-Baptiste Society. In 1902, he was appointed to the Senate of Canada representing senatorial division of De Salaberry, Quebec. A Liberal, he served until his death in 1933. In 1932, Béique nominated Raoul Dandurand for the Nobel Prize in Peace.[1]
After his death in 1845, he was entombed at the Notre Dame des Neiges Cemetery in Montreal.[4]