J.-H.-Napoléon Désaulniers (1875-1958) was a local politician in Shawinigan, Quebec. He served two non-consecutive terms as the sixth Mayor of

Shawinigan Shawinigan () is a city located on the Saint-Maurice River in the Mauricie area in Quebec, Canada. It had a population of 49,349 as of the 2016 Canadian census. Shawinigan is also a territory equivalent to a regional county municipality (TE) an ...

.Fabien LaRochelle, Shawinigan depuis 75 ans, 1976 He was born in 1875 in Nicolet,

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. He was a Conservative machine politician and was a notary. Désaulniers served as a council member in Shawinigan from 1911 to 1913. He also was the mayor of the city from 1918 to 1920 and 1928 to 1930. He was in office when World War I came to an end. He died in Shawinigan in 1958. ''Avenue Désaulniers'' near ''Collège de Shawinigan'' was named to honour him.

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