Jean-Léo Rochon Explained

Jean-Léo Rochon
Birth Date:3 July 1902
Birth Place:Saint-Augustin, Mirabel, Quebec, Canada
Death Place:Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Office1:Member of the Legislative Assembly of Quebec for Deux-Montagnes
Predecessor1:Paul Sauvé
Successor1:Paul Sauvé
Term Start1:1935
Term End1:1936
Constituency Mp2:Laval
Parliament2:Canadian
Predecessor2:Rodrigue Bourdages
Successor2:Marcel-Claude Roy
Term Start2:June 1962
Term End2:June 1968
Parliament3:Canadian
Riding3:Ahuntsic
Successor3:Jeanne Sauvé
Term Start3:June 1968
Term End3:September 1972
Profession:optometrist
Party:Liberal

Jean-Léo Rochon (3 July 1902  - 21 June 1988) was a Liberal party member of the House of Commons of Canada. He was born in Saint-Augustin, now a part of Mirabel and became an optometrist by career.

He was first elected in the 1935 Quebec general election as a Liberal party member of the short-lived 19th Legislative Assembly of Quebec from November 1935 to August 1936, but only served that one term as a provincial politician.

After several provincial and federal election defeats, Rochon won a House of Commons seat at the Laval riding in the 1962 general election. He was re-elected there in the 1963 and 1965 federal elections. For the 1968 federal election, Rochon was re-elected at the Ahuntsic electoral district. He served his final term in the 28th Canadian Parliament then left federal office in 1972 without campaigning for another term in the House of Commons.