Gérald Beaudoin Explained

Honorific-Prefix:The Honourable
Gérald Beaudoin
Term Start:1988
Term End:2004
Birth Date:15 April 1929
Birth Place:Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Death Place:Hull, Quebec, Canada
Party:Conservative (2004)
Otherparty:Progressive Conservative (1988–2004)
Office:Senator for Rigaud senate division
Predecessor:Jean Le Moyne
Appointed:Brian Mulroney

Gérald A. Beaudoin (April 15, 1929  - September 10, 2008) was a Canadian lawyer and Senator.

Born in Montreal, Quebec, he received a B.A., an LL.L and an M.A. from the Université de Montréal. He was called to the Quebec Bar in 1954.

He was appointed to the Senate in 1988 representing the Senatorial division of Rigaud, Quebec. He retired at the mandatory age of 75 in 2004. He sat as a Progressive Conservative and then as a Conservative.

After his political career, he taught constitutional law at the faculty of civil law at the University of Ottawa.

Honours

In 1980, he was made an Officer of the Order of Canada. In 2001, he was made a Commander of the Order of the Crown. In 2004 he received the French Legion of Honour. In 2008, he was made an Officer of the National Order of Quebec.

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