Louis Beaubien

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Louis Beaubien (July 27, 1837 – July 19, 1915) was a Canadian politician.

Early life

Born in Montreal, Lower Canada, the son of Pierre Beaubien, a physician and politician, and Marie-Justine Casgrain, he was one of the founders of Outremont.

Political career

In

He was re-elected in 1875, 1878, and acclaimed in 1881. He was Speaker of the Legislative Assembly from 1876 to 1878. He did not run in the 1886 election. In 1891, he was named commissioner of agriculture and colonization in the cabinet of Charles Boucher de Boucherville.

Beaubien was acclaimed in the 1892 election. He would remain in this post in the cabinets of Louis-Olivier Taillon and Edmund James Flynn. He was defeated in the 1897 election.

Personal life

In 1882, he was the 30th

He is the grandfather of Louis-Philippe Beaubien, also a Canadian senator. He was a cousin of Charles Eusèbe Casgrain and, his son, Philippe Baby Casgrain. Beaubien died in 1915 and is buried in the Notre Dame des Neiges Cemetery.

Electoral history

See also

References

• Louis Beaubien and family fonds at Library and Archives Canada.
• Louis Beaubien – Parliament of Canada biography
• "Louis Beaubien". Dictionary of Canadian Biography (online ed.). University of Toronto Press. 1979–2016.
• "Biography". Dictionnaire des parlementaires du Québec de 1792 à nos jours (in French). National Assembly of Quebec.