Pierre-Auguste Lafleur Explained

Pierre-Auguste Lafleur
Office:Member of the Legislative Assembly of Quebec for Montréal-Verdun
Predecessor:District created in 1922
Successor:Joseph-Jean-Léopold Comeau
Term Start:1923
Term End:1939
Birth Date:3 March 1872
Birth Place:Sainte-Adèle, Quebec
Death Place:Verdun, Quebec
Party:Union Nationale

Pierre-Auguste Lafleur (March 3, 1872  - December 14, 1954) was a Canadian politician and a five-term Member of the Legislative Assembly of Quebec.

Background

He was born in Sainte-Adèle, Laurentides on March 3, 1872, and made career in the furniture industry. He married Jennie Veitch in Verdun, Quebec, in 1918.

City Councillor

He served as a city councillor from 1921 to 1933 in Verdun.

Member of the legislature

Lafleur ran as a Conservative candidate in the provincial district of Montréal-Verdun in the 1923 election and won. He was re-elected in the 1927, 1931 and 1935 elections.

He joined Maurice Duplessis's Union Nationale and was re-elected in the 1936 election.

He was defeated in the 1939, 1944 and 1948 elections.

Death

He died on December 14, 1954, in Verdun.