Anselme-Homère Pâquet (29 September 1830 – 22 December 1891) was a

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and parliamentarian. He served three terms as a Liberal Member of Parliament in the

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representing the

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riding of Berthier. He was born Michel-Anselme Pâquet in Saint-Cuthbert,

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in 1830. He studied at the Montreal School of Medicine and Surgery, qualified as a physician in 1853 and opened a practice in Saint-Cuthbert. By 1854, he had adopted the name Anselme-Homère. He was elected to the

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in 1863 for Berthier and served until

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. He opposed confederation. He was elected in the Canadian federal election of 1867, and was re-elected in

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and

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. He resigned his seat in the House of Commons to accept an appointment to the

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on 9 February 1875 on the recommendation of Alexander Mackenzie. He served in this capacity, representing the senatorial division of De la Vallière, Quebec, until his death in 1891. Pâquet also taught clinical medicine at the

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and hygiene and public health at the Montreal School of Medicine.

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