Arthur Marcotte was a lawyer and political figure in Saskatchewan

Saskatchewan

Saskatchewan is a prairie province in Canada, which has an area of . Saskatchewan is bordered on the west by Alberta, on the north by the Northwest Territories, on the east by Manitoba, and on the south by the U.S. states of Montana and North Dakota....

, Canada. He sat for Ponteix division in the Senate of Canada from 1931 to 1958 as a Conservative.

He was born in Sault-au-Récolle near Montreal

Montreal

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, the son of Hormisdas Marcotte and Célina Beauchamp, and was educated at the Séminaire de Ste-Thérèse and the Université de Montréal

Université de Montréal

The Université de Montréal is a public francophone research university in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It comprises thirteen faculties, more than sixty departments and two affiliated schools: the École Polytechnique and HEC Montréal...

. In 1894, he married Hermine Germain. Marcotte served as the secretary to Guillaume-Alphonse Nantel

Guillaume-Alphonse Nantel

Guillaume-Alphonse Nantel was a Canadian lawyer, journalist, author, newspaper owner, and politician. Born in Saint-Jerome, Quebec, he was elected to the Canadian House of Commons as a Conservative candidate in the Quebec riding of Terrebonne in the 1882 federal election...

 from 1896 to 1897 and then was an accountant in the Quebec Department of Crown Lands until 1904. He was amateur billiards

Billiards

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 champion of Canada in 1901 and represented Canada in the World Billiards Championship held in New York

New York

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. He founded the Académie de Billard Marcotte in Montreal in 1904. Marcotte came to Saskatchewan in 1910 and was admitted to the Regina

Regina, Saskatchewan

Regina is the capital city of the Canadian province of Saskatchewan. The city is the second-largest in the province and a cultural and commercial centre for southern Saskatchewan. It is governed by Regina City Council. Regina is the cathedral city of the Roman Catholic and Romanian Orthodox...

 bar in 1914. He ran unsuccessfully for the Notukeu

Notukeu (electoral district)

Notukeu was a provincial electoral division for the Legislative Assembly of the province of Saskatchewan, Canada, located south of Old Wives Lake. This district was created before the 3rd provincial election in 1912 as "Pinto Creek", after the rural municipality and the creek that flows through it...

 seat in the provincial assembly in 1912 and 1917 and in the federal riding of Willow Bunch

Willow Bunch

Willow Bunch was a federal electoral district in Saskatchewan, Canada, that was represented in the Canadian House of Commons from 1925 to 1935.This riding was created in 1924 from parts of Maple Creek, Moose Jaw and Swift Current ridings...

 in 1926. Marcotte was president of the Association des professionnels canadiens-français de la Saskatchewan and vice-president of the Association Franco-canadienne. He died in office at the age of 85. He was appointed to the Senate by Prime Minister R.B. Bennett.

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