Jacques Dorion (ca 1797 – December 29, 1877) was a doctor and political figure in

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. He was born at

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around 1797 and studied at the

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. Dorion studied medicine at

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and returned to set up practice at Saint-Ours. In 1824, he married Catherine-Louise Lovell, niece of

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Charles-Louis-Roch de Saint-Ours. Dorion was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Lower Canada for

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in 1830 and was reelected in 1834, as a supporter of the parti patriote. Dorion signed the Ninety-Two Resolutions. He founded a branch of the Saint-Jean-Baptiste Society at Saint-Ours in 1835. In December 1837, he was arrested for high treason and imprisoned until March 1838. He died at Saint-Ours in 1877. One son, Joseph-Adolphe, later served in the Quebec legislative assembly, and another son, Eugène-Philippe, was head of the

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translators for the Canadian House of Commons.

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Dorion, Jacques Members of the Legislative Assembly of Lower Canada 1797 births 1877 deaths