Alexis Mousseau was a farmer and political figure in Lower Canada

Lower Canada

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. He represented Warwick from 1820 to 1824 and from 1827 to 1830 and Berthier from 1830 to 1838 in the Legislative Assembly of Lower Canada

Legislative Assembly of Lower Canada

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He was born in Berthier

Berthierville, Quebec

Berthierville is a Canadian town located between Montreal and Trois-Rivières on the north shore of the Saint Lawrence River in the province of Quebec. Berthierville is the seat of D'Autray Regional County Municipality, and is served by Autoroute 40, and is the junction of Routes 138 and 158...

, Lower Canada, the son of Jean-Baptiste Mousseau and Marie-Catherine Laferrière. In 1793, he married Marie-Anne Piette. Mousseau served as a captain in the militia. He generally supported the Parti patriote and voted in support of the Ninety-Two Resolutions

Ninety-Two Resolutions

The Ninety-Two Resolutions were drafted by Louis-Joseph Papineau and other members of the Parti patriote of Lower Canada in 1834. The resolutions were a long series of demands for political reforms in the British-governed colony....

. Mousseau died in Berthier at the age of 80.

His daughter Geneviève married Pierre-Eustache Dostaler

Pierre-Eustache Dostaler

Pierre-Eustache Dostaler was a farmer and political figure in Quebec. He represented Berthier in the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada from 1854 to 1858 and from 1861 to 1863....

. His grandson Omer Dostaler

Omer Dostaler

Omer Dostaler was a farmer and political figure in Quebec. He represented Berthier in the Legislative Assembly of Quebec in 1890 as a Liberal....

 served in the provincial assembly and his grandsons Joseph-Alfred Mousseau

Joseph-Alfred Mousseau

Joseph-Alfred Mousseau, PC , was a French Canadian politician.He was born in Sainte-Geneviève-de-Berthier, Lower Canada, the son of Louis Mousseau, the son of Alexis Mousseau, and Sophie Duteau, dit Grandpré...

 and Joseph Octave Mousseau

Joseph Octave Mousseau

Joseph Octave Mousseau was a physician and political figure in Quebec. He represented Soulanges in the Canadian House of Commons from 1891 to 1892 as an Independent member....

were members of the Canadian House of Commons.