Alexandre Gaudet (December 29, 1870 – January 20, 1961) was a Quebec merchant and politician. He represented Nicolet in the Legislative Assembly of Quebec from 1933 to 1936 as a Liberal.
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Nicolet was a provincial electoral district in the Montérégie region of Quebec, Canada.
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The son of David Gaudet and Delphine Hébert, he was born in Sainte-Eulalie and was educated there. Gaudet worked on the family farm, established a general store at Sainte-Eulalie and then established the company Alexandre Gaudet Ltée, a wholesale business, at Aston-Jonction. Gaudet was a member of the Montreal Board of Trade. He served as mayor of Aston-Jonction from 1928 to 1937 and from 1941 to 1947 and as prefect for Nicolet County from 1930 to 1932. [1]
Sainte-Eulalie is a municipality in the Nicolet-Yamaska RCM in the Centre-du-Québec region of Quebec, Canada, situated at the crossroads of Autoroutes 55, 20 and 955. The population as of the Canada 2011 Census was 871.
A general merchant store is a rural or small town store that carries a general line of merchandise. It carries a broad selection of merchandise, sometimes in a small space, where people from the town and surrounding rural areas come to purchase all their general goods. The store carries routine stock and obtains special orders from warehouses. It differs from a convenience store or corner shop in that it will be the main shop for the community rather than a convenient supplement.
Aston-Jonction is a municipality in the Centre-du-Québec region of the province of Quebec in Canada. The population as of the Canada 2011 Census was 410.
In 1892, he married Flore Bourgeois. His daughter Françoise was a Quebec journalist. [1]
Françoise Gaudet-Smet was a Canadian writer living in Quebec.
He was first elected to the Quebec assembly in a by-election held November 7, 1933. Gaudet was reelected in 1935 and was defeated when he ran for reelection in 1936, [1] losing to Émery Fleury of the Union Nationale.
Émery Fleury was a Canadian politician and a three-term member of the Legislative Assembly of Quebec.
The Union Nationale was a conservative and nationalist provincial political party in Quebec, Canada, that identified with Québécois autonomism. It was created during the Great Depression and held power in Quebec from 1936 to 1939, and from 1944 to 1960 and from 1966 to 1970. The party was founded by Maurice Duplessis, who led it until his death in 1959.
He died at Aston-Jonction at the age of 90 and was buried there. [1]
