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♂ Adolphe-Basile Routhier
aliasAdolphe-Basile Routhier
Record
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Type of record
Elected candidate
Known but unelected candidate ✓
Perennial candidate		 Deceased Performance: 0%
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Canada 0 2 2
Birth 8 May 1839 → 185 years + 6 months ago
Lived 81 years + 1 month
First run 17 February 1869 → 155 years + 8 months ago
↳ at age 29 years + 9 months
Death 27 June 1920 → 104 years + 4 months ago
 
Special notes
None
 
Adolphe-Basile Routhier (1839–1920)
© Photo c.1890 Jules-Isaïe Benoît — Public domain
Family tie with other documented individual
⊖ Félix Routhier (1827–1903) Brother  
 
Well that's interesting!
Routhier was a Québec Conservative who tried twice to get elected federally. In 1880, he wrote the lyrics of the original French version of the national anthem, "O Canada."
 

Electoral history

Races 2  
Path points 2  
1 documented challenger
⊖ Charles-Alphonse-Pantaléon Pelletier  m  (2 runoffs)
 
 
Kamouraska
Elig. inc. Votes: 2,254 Partic.: inc. Can.: 2
Federal
1		 Québec
17 February 1869
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  CONS  Majority
ID: 17730(F) — 14 Oct 2023 20:07 ET
✗
 Failed to enter Parliament
Age
29
CONS
 2/2 1,105 49.02% -44 Winner:
LIB
 1,149 50.98% Charles-Alphonse-Pantaléon Pelletier
Kamouraska
Elig. inc. Votes: 2,188 Partic.: inc. Can.: 2
Federal
2		 Québec
20 July 1872
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  CONS  Minority
ID: 18617(F) — 14 Oct 2023 20:07 ET
✗
 Failed to enter Parliament
Age
33
CONS
 2/2 1,045 47.76% -98 Winner:
LIB
 1,143 52.24% Charles-Alphonse-Pantaléon Pelletier

Online biographical references (3)

Bilingual references are counted as a single reference.  Retrieved on
EN Dictionary of Canadian Biography
Routhier, Sir Adolphe-Basile		 28 Jun 2024
FR Dictionnaire biographique du Canada
Routhier, sir Adolphe-Basile		 28 Jun 2024
EN Wikipedia
Adolphe-Basile Routhier		 28 Jun 2024
FR Wikipédia
Adolphe-Basile Routhier		 28 Jun 2024

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Pub.: 22 Jun 2019 17:01
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