Jean-François Pouliot (March 27, 1890 – July 6, 1969) was a lawyer, author and political figure in

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. He represented Témiscouata in the

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from 1924 to 1955 as a

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and, for a period, as an

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. Pouliot sat for De la Durantaye division in the

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from 1955 to 1968. He was born in

Rivière-du-Loup Rivière-du-Loup (; 2021 population 20,118) is a small city on the south shore of the Saint Lawrence River in Quebec. The city is the seat for the Rivière-du-Loup Regional County Municipality and the judicial district of Kamouraska. Its one of ...

, the son of Charles-Eugène Pouliot and Stella-Anita Bertrand. Pouliot was admitted to the Quebec bar in 1914 and set up practice in Rivière-du-Loup. In 1920, he married Marika Maubach.Fournier, Rodolph
''Lieux et monuments historiques de l'Est du Québec'' (1980)
p. 239 He ran unsuccessfully for a seat in the House of Commons in 1921. Pouliot was elected in a 1924 by-election held following the death of Charles Arthur Gauvreau. He was re-elected in all subsequent federal elections, resigning his seat in 1955 after being called to the Senate. Pouliot and several other Quebec Liberal MPs broke with the Liberal Party during the

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, quitting the Liberal caucus in order to oppose the government's decision to deploy

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conscripts overseas. Previously, conscripts had only been used for "home defence" and kept within Canada. He ran and was re-elected as an "Independent Liberal" in the 1945 federal election. He subsequently rejoined the Liberal caucus. He published: * ''Le nouveau Code municipal annoté e la province de Québec' (1916) * ''Le droit paroissial de la province de Québec'' (1919) * ''Traité de droit fabricien et paroissial'' (1936)

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Pouliot, Jean-Francois Liberal Party of Canada MPs Independent Liberal MPs in Canada Members of the House of Commons of Canada from Quebec Canadian senators from Quebec People from Rivière-du-Loup 1890 births 1969 deaths

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