Antoine Casavant was a farmer and political figure in Quebec

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. He represented Bagot

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 in the Legislative Assembly of Quebec

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 from 1881 to 1886 as a Conservative. His name also appears as Antoine Casavant dit Ladébauche.

He was born in Saint-Hyacinthe

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, Lower Canada

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, the son of Antoine Casavant dit Ladébauche and Marie Benoît, and was educated at the Séminaire de Saint-Hyacinthe. Casavant served as a captain in the militia, a justice of the peace

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 and a commissioner for the trial of minor causes. He was also president of the agricultural society for Bagot County and a member of the Quebec agricultural council. He helped found a beet

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 sugar plant at Farnham

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. He was married twice: to Rosalie Piedalue in 1850 and to Marie-Hermine Vachon in 1868. Casavant served on the municipal council for Saint-Dominique

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. He ran unsuccessfully for the Saint-Hyacinthe seat in the Quebec assembly in 1878 and 1879. Casavant died in Saint-Dominique at the age of 65.