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♂ Louis-René Beaudoin
aliasLouis-René Beaudoin
Record
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Type of record
Elected candidate ✓
Known but unelected candidate
Perennial candidate		 Deceased Performance: 100%
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Canada 4 0 4
Birth 5 May 1912 → 111 years + 11 months ago
Lived 57 years + 9 months
First mandate 11 June 1945 → 78 years + 10 months ago
↳ at age 33 years + 1 month
Death 21 February 1970 → 54 years + 2 months ago
Exit → Death 11 years + 10 months after 30 March 1958
Special notes
None
 
Louis-René Beaudoin (1912–1970)
© Photo — Public domain
Family tie with other documented individual
None
 
Well that's interesting!
Beaudoin, the Liberal MP for Vaudreuil—Soulanges from 1945 to 1958, was the Speaker in the 22nd parliament. His term ended in controversy, tarnishing his reputation, and he voluntarily retired from politics in 1958. Moving to the United States that year, he divorced his first wife and married his second, who was 24 years his junior. He went from being the speaker to being a bartender in a tavern in Arizona and, later, a high school teacher in the Laurentians. He died of a heart attack, "virtually penniless and alone, in the back seat of a Montreal taxi," at the age of 57.
 

Length of service in elected office

Legislature Total Government Opposition
years months days years months days years months days
Canada 12 9 15

Leadership role

  Duration
# Legislature Party M Int Role Age Dates y m d
1. CA 22
LIB
 1 Speaker 41–45 10 Aug 1953 — 09 Jun 1957 3 9 30

Electoral history

Races 4  
Path points 5  
1 documented challenger
⊖ Marcel Bourbonnais  m 
 
 
Eligible: 13,060 Votes: 9,957 Participation: 76.24% Candidacies: 4
Federal
20		 Québec
11 June 1945
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  LIB  Minority
ID: 23339(F) — 16 Aug 2021 01:28 ET
✓
 → New to Parliament
Age
33
LIB
 1/4 6,267 62.94% +4,387 Loser:
IND
 1,880 18.88% Jean Lamarche

Service: 4 years 15 days (Gov't)
Eligible: 14,887 Votes: 11,404 Participation: 76.60% Candidacies: 2
Federal
21		 Québec
27 June 1949
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  LIB  Majority
ID: 23600(F) — 16 Aug 2021 01:28 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
37
LIB
 1/2 7,622 67.56% +3,963 Loser:
PC
 3,659 32.44% J.-Omer Lalonde

Service: 4 years 1 month 13 days (Gov't)
Eligible: 16,790 Votes: 10,839 Participation: 64.56% Candidacies: 2
Federal
22		 Québec
10 August 1953
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  LIB  Majority
ID: 23910(F) — 16 Aug 2021 01:28 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
41
LIB
 1/2 8,463 78.97% +6,209 Loser:
PC
 2,254 21.03% Roger-Paul Sullivan

Service: 3 years 9 months 30 days (Gov't)
Eligible: 18,155 Votes: 13,384 Participation: 73.72% Candidacies: 2
Federal
23		 Québec
10 June 1957
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  PC  Minority
ID: 24196(F) — 16 Aug 2021 01:28 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
45
LIB
 1/2 9,055 68.49% +4,889 Loser:
PC
 4,166 31.51% Marcel Bourbonnais

Service: 9 months 20 days (Oppo.)
Eligible: 18,155 Votes: 15,435 Participation: 85.02% Candidacies: 2
Federal
24		 Québec
31 March 1958
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  PC  Majority
ID: 24462(F) — 16 Aug 2021 01:28 ET
—
 Incumbent did not run in this election →
Age
45		 Successor:
PC
 8,161 52.87% Marcel Bourbonnais

Online biographical references (4)

Bilingual references are counted as a single reference.  Retrieved on
EN Non-standard link
Mark Maloney, The Toronto Star (24 February 2007), A tragic, shocking fall from grace		 02 Feb 2024
EN Parliament of Canada (ParlInfo)
The Hon. Louis-René Beaudoin, P.C., M.P.		 02 Feb 2024
FR Parlement du Canada (ParlInfo)
L'hon. Louis-René Beaudoin, C.P., député		 02 Feb 2024
FR Wikipédia
Louis-René Beaudoin		 02 Feb 2024
EN Wikipedia
Louis-René Beaudoin		 02 Feb 2024

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