Pierre-Clovis Beauchesne | |
Constituency Mp: | Bonaventure |
Parliament: | Canadian |
Predecessor: | Théodore Robitaille |
Successor: | Louis-Joseph Riopel |
Term Start: | 1879 |
Term End: | 1882 |
Office2: | Member of the Legislative Assembly of Quebec for Bonaventure |
Predecessor2: | Théodore Robitaille |
Successor2: | Joseph Israël Tarte |
Term Start2: | 1874 |
Term End2: | 1876 |
Birth Date: | 8 June 1841 |
Birth Place: | Bécancour, Canada East |
Death Place: | Montreal, Quebec |
Pierre-Clovis Beauchesne (8 June 1841 - 10 October 1918) was a Canadian politician.
Born in Bécancour, Canada East, the son of Pierre Bourbeau dit Beauchesne and Marie-Archange Pérenne de Moras (Archange Maurâce), Beauchesne was educated at Nicolet College and became a notary in 1865. He was a notary in Gaspésie and was a fish inspector. As well he was a customs collector from 1871 to 1874. He was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Quebec in an 1874 by-election in the electoral district of Bonaventure. A Conservative, he was re-elected in 1875. In 1876, the election was declared void and he did not run in the resulting by-election. In an 1879 by-election, he was elected to the House of Commons of Canada for the electoral district of Bonaventure. A Conservative, he did not run in 1882. He was a major in the Bonaventure Reserve Militia.
He died in Montreal in 1918 and was buried in Notre Dame des Neiges Cemetery.