Louis-Auguste Dupuis (August 24, 1884 – March 11, 1967) was an educator, notary and political figure in Quebec. He represented Kamouraska in the Legislative Assembly of Quebec from 1909 to 1912 as a Liberal.
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Kamouraska was a provincial electoral district in the Bas-Saint-Laurent region of Quebec, Canada.
He was born in Saint-Roch-des-Aulnaies, the son of Jules-Arthur Dupuis and Eugénie Miville Dechêne. Dupuis was the grandson of Jean-Baptiste Couillard Dupuis. He was educated at the Collège de Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pocatière and the Université Laval. He articled as a notary, qualified to practise in 1907 and set up practice in La Pocatière. In 1908, he married Marie-Éva-Berthe Raymond.
Jean-Baptiste Couillard Dupuis was a farmer, merchant and political figure in Quebec. He represented L'Islet in the Legislative Assembly of Quebec from 1878 to 1881 as a Liberal. His surname was "Couillard Dupuis".
Université Laval is a French-language, public research university in Quebec City, Quebec, Canada. The University was founded by royal charter issued by Queen Victoria in 1852, with roots in the founding of the Séminaire de Québec in 1663 by François de Montmorency-Laval, making it the oldest centre of higher education in Canada and the first North American institution to offer higher education in French. The university, whose campus was erected from the 1950s onward in the suburban borough of Sainte-Foy–Sillery–Cap-Rouge, is ranked among the top ten Canadian universities in terms of research funding and holds four Canada Excellence Research Chairs.
Dupuis served as president of the Chambre des notaires from 1942 to 1945. He taught agricultural law at the School of Agriculture in La Pocatière from 1914 to 1943 and was professor in the faculty of agriculture at the Université Laval from 1943 to 1962.
He also was secretary and manager for the Caisse populaire at Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pocatière. Dupuis served as mayor of La Pocatière from 1925 to 1936. He was elected to the Quebec assembly in a 1909 by-election held after Louis-Rodolphe Roy was named a judge. Dupis later ran unsuccessfully for a seat in the Quebec assembly in a 1920 by-election.
Louis-Rodolphe Roy was a Canadian lawyer, politician, and judge.
Dupuis died in Quebec City at the age of 82.
His uncle: Alphonse-Arthur Miville Dechêne served in the Canadian House of Commons and his uncles Pamphile-Gaspard Verreault and François-Gilbert Miville Dechêne were members of the Quebec assembly.
Pamphile-Gaspard Verreault was a farmer, notary and political figure in Quebec. He represented L'Islet in the Legislative Assembly of Quebec from 1867 to 1878 as a Conservative member.
François-Gilbert Miville Dechêne was a lawyer and political figure in Quebec. He represented L'Islet in the Legislative Assembly of Quebec from 1886 to 1902 as a Liberal.
