Patrick Tobin Asselin
Joseph Patrick Tobin Asselin | |
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Member of Parliament for Richmond—Wolfe | |
In office April 1963 – April 1968 | |
Personal details | |
Born | 29 March 1930 Bromptonville, Quebec, Canada |
Died | August 31, 2005 Ottawa, Ontario, Canada | (aged 75)
Political party | Liberal |
Profession | administrator, farmer |
Joseph Patrick Tobin Asselin (March 29, 1930 – August 31, 2005), known as Patrick Tobin Asselin, was a
for two terms in the 1960s, he returned to Parliament a quarter-century later to work as a security guard.He was born on a farm in
His father,
After graduating from high school, Asselin attended
During the 1963 federal election, he was serving as president of the Liberal riding association in Richmond—Wolfe, the rural Quebec constituency in which he lived, when the nominated Liberal candidate unexpectedly dropped out of the race 30 days before election day. Asselin stepped in as the new candidate, and defeated incumbent Social Credit MP André Bernier by 350 votes. Asselin's brother, Edmund Tobin Asselin, was re-elected in the Montreal riding of Notre-Dame-de-Grâce in the same election.
The election brought to power a Liberal
Asselin's margin of victory increased to 2,000 votes at the
"I got out of politics because of illness -- the voters got sick of me," said Asselin. His defeat came six months short of the minimum period of service required at the time to qualify for a parliamentary pension. Following his defeat, Asselin worked as an aide to
He returned to politics to serve as mayor of Aylmer, Quebec from 1979 to 1983. He subsequently returned to Ottawa to work as a security supervisor on Parliament Hill.
Asselin died in Ottawa in 2005 of a neurological disease.
External links
- Patrick Tobin Asselin – Parliament of Canada biography
- Langan, F.F. (3 October 2005). "Patrick Asselin: Politician and Farmer, 1930-2005". The Globe and Mail.