About Napoléon Séguin
Lived 1865 – 1940 (aged 74). Napoléon Séguin was a Canadian politician.
Napoléon Séguin (December 13, 1865 – January 29, 1940) was a Canadian politician.
Born in Sainte Madeleine de Rigaud, Canada East, Séguin was acclaimed to the Legislative Assembly of Quebec for Montréal division no. 1 in 1908. A Liberal, he was re-elected in Montréal–Sainte-Marie in 1912, 1916, and 1919. He was a Minister without Portfolio in the cabinet of Lomer Gouin in 1919 and in the cabinet of Louis-Alexandre Taschereau in 1920.
He resigned in 1921 when he was appointed Governor of the Bordeaux Prison, a post he held until 1939.
He died in Montréal-Nord in 1940.
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Napoléon Séguin was born on 13 December 1865 in Rigaud.
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Napoléon Séguin died on 29 January 1940 in Montréal-Nord.
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