François-Xavier-Ovide Méthot (September 19, 1843 – October 19, 1908) was a

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farmer and political figure. He represented Nicolet in the

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from 1871 to 1876 and in the

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as an Independent Conservative member from 1877 to 1884. He was born in

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in 1843, the son of

François-Xavier Méthot François-Xavier Méthot (November 10, 1796 – November 6, 1853) was a Quebec businessman and political figure. He was born François-Xavier Méthotte in Pointe-aux-Trembles, Lower Canada in 1796 and settled in the Lower Town of Quebec City, ...

, and studied at the

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. He married his cousin Clara, the daughter of

Antoine-Prosper Méthot Antoine-Prosper Méthot (1804 – July 7, 1871) was a Quebec notary and political figure. He was born Antoine-Prosper Méthotte at Pointe-aux-Trembles, Lower Canada in 1804. Méthot studied at the Petit Séminaire de Québec, apprenticed as a ...

, in 1864. Méthot was a farmer at Saint-Pierre-les-Becquets and served as mayor there from 1868 to 1872. In 1871, he was elected to the legislative assembly of the province in Nicolet as a Conservative; he was reelected in 1875 but his election was declared invalid by the Quebec Superior Court in June 1876. He did not run again in the subsequent by-election but was elected to the federal parliament in an 1877 by-election after the then-sitting member was named to the Legislative Council of Quebec. Méthot represented Nicolet until 1884, when he was named to the

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in De La Vallière district. He remarried in 1885; his second wife was Marie-Clara-Louise-Ernestine Paradis. He died in office at Saint-Pierre-les-Becquets in 1908.

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