Alexandre Gaudet (December 29, 1870 – January 20, 1961) was a

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merchant and politician. He represented Nicolet in the

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from 1933 to 1936 as a

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. The son of David Gaudet and Delphine Hébert, he was born in Sainte-Eulalie and was educated there. Gaudet worked on the family farm, established a

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at Sainte-Eulalie and then established the company Alexandre Gaudet Ltée, a wholesale business, at Aston-Jonction. Gaudet was a member of the Montreal Board of Trade. He served as mayor of Aston-Jonction from 1928 to 1937 and from 1941 to 1947 and as prefect for Nicolet County from 1930 to 1932. In 1892, he married Flore Bourgeois. His daughter

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was a Quebec journalist. He was first elected to the Quebec assembly in a by-election held November 7, 1933. Gaudet was reelected in 1935 and was defeated when he ran for reelection in 1936, losing to

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of the Union Nationale. He died at Aston-Jonction at the age of 90 and was buried there.

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1870 births 1961 deaths Quebec Liberal Party MNAs 20th-century mayors of places in Quebec 20th-century members of the National Assembly of Quebec {{Liberal-Quebec-MNA-stub