Louis Côté Explained

Louis Côté
Birth Date:13 September 1890
Birth Place:Ottawa, Canada
Death Place:Ottawa, Canada
Occupation:Lawyer, politician
Education:University of Ottawa
Office1:Member of the Senate of Canada
Constituency1:Ottawa East
Term Start1:1933
Term End1:1943
Office2:Member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario
Constituency2:Ottawa East
Term Start2:1929
Term End2:1934

Louis Côté (September 13, 1890  - February 2, 1943) was an Ontario lawyer and political figure. He represented Ottawa East in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario as a Conservative from 1929 to 1934 and was also a Conservative member of the Senate of Canada for Ottawa East division from 1933 to 1943.

Biography

He was born in Ottawa in 1890 and studied at the University of Ottawa and Osgoode Hall. Côté married Stella, the daughter of judge Ernest Cimon and granddaughter of Hector-Louis Langevin, in 1922. He was a member of the Scott-Merchant-Côté Commission which recommended the creation of a bilingual school system for Franco-Ontarians.

Côté died of a heart attack at Ottawa's Union train station in 1943 while still serving as a senator.

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