Benoît Chabot (13 February 1911 – 20 July 2006)Death notice in ''Le Soleil'', 22 July 2006 was a

Canadian Canadians (french: Canadiens) are people identified with the country of Canada. This connection may be residential, legal, historical or cultural. For most Canadians, many (or all) of these connections exist and are collectively the source of ...

newspaper dealer, sales agent and politician. Chabot served as an

independent Independent or Independents may refer to: Arts, entertainment, and media Artist groups * Independents (artist group), a group of modernist painters based in the New Hope, Pennsylvania, area of the United States during the early 1930s * Independ ...

member of the

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. Chabot was born in

Plaisance, Quebec Plaisance is a municipality in Papineau Regional County Municipality in western Quebec, Canada. The village is situated on the Ottawa River near the mouth of the Petite-Nation River, 70 km from Gatineau and 160 km from Montreal on Route ...

. He was first elected at the Kamouraska riding in the 1957 general election. After his only federal term, the

23rd Canadian Parliament The 23rd Canadian Parliament was in session from October 14, 1957, until February 1, 1958. The membership was set by the 1957 federal election on June 10, 1957, and it changed only somewhat due to resignations and by-elections until it was dissolv ...

, Chabot left federal politics and did not seek re-election in

1958 Events January * January 1 – The European Economic Community (EEC) comes into being. * January 3 – The West Indies Federation is formed. * January 4 ** Edmund Hillary's Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition completes the third ...

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* 1911 births 2006 deaths Members of the House of Commons of Canada from Quebec Independent MPs in the Canadian House of Commons {{Quebec-MP-stub