Frédéric Liguori Béique Explained

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]

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: The Nomination Database for the Nobel Prize in Peace, 1901-1955.
  2. Book: Lamonde, Yvan. Louis-Antoine Dessaulles, 1818–1895: un seigneur libéral et anticérical. 1994. registration. Les Editions Fides. Ville Saint Laurent, Canada. fr. 978-2-7621-1736-3. 238.
  3. Book: Cohen. Yolande . Yolande Cohen. Femmes philanthropes: Catholiques, protestantes et juives dans les organisations caritatives au Québec (1880-1945). 2010. University of Montreal Press. Montreal, Canada. 978-2-821-89766-3. 10.4000/books.pum.4463. Chapitre 4. Santé publique, care et professions féminines. 116. 2018-03-17. https://web.archive.org/web/20180318125512/http://books.openedition.org/pum/pdf/4456. 2018-03-18. dead.
  4. Book: Répertoire des personnages inhumés au cimetière ayant marqué l'histoire de notre société. Notre Dame des Neiges Cemetery. Montreal. fr.