Louis-Joseph Gauthier Explained

Louis-Joseph Gauthier
Birth Date:21 March 1866
Birth Place:Montreal, Canada East
Death Place:Montreal, Quebec
Resting Place:Notre Dame des Neiges Cemetery
Occupation:Lawyer, politician
Party:Liberal
Office1:Member of the House of Commons of Canada
Constituency1:St. Hyacinthe, St. Hyacinthe—Rouville
Term Start1:1911
Term End1:1921
Office2:Member of the Legislative Assembly of Quebec
Constituency2:L'Assomption
Term Start2:1906
Term End2:1908

Louis-Joseph Gauthier, (March 21, 1866  - April 12, 1938) was a lawyer and political figure in Quebec. He represented L'Assomption in the Legislative Assembly of Quebec from 1906 to 1908 and St. Hyacinthe and then St. Hyacinthe—Rouville in the House of Commons of Canada from 1911 to 1921 as a Liberal.

Biography

He was born in Montreal, Canada East, the son of Joseph Gauthier and Julie Généreux, and was educated at the Séminaire de Montréal and the Université Laval. Gauthier was admitted to the Quebec bar in 1889 and practised in Montreal, Laurentides and Westmount. In 1901, he was named King's Counsel. Gauthier was a mayor of Laurentides in 1905. He was elected to the Quebec assembly in a 1906 by-election held after Joseph-Édouard Duhamel resigned his seat to accept an appointment. He was defeated by Walter Reed when he ran for reelection to the Quebec assembly in 1908.

Gauthier was defeated when he ran for reelection to the House of Commons in 1921 and was also unsuccessful in federal elections held in 1921, 1925, 1926 and 1930 and in a Quebec election held in 1927. Gauthier was married twice: to Marie-Amazilie Morency in 1893 and to Marie-Anne Desmarais in 1901. He died in Montreal at the age of 72 and was buried in the Notre Dame des Neiges Cemetery.