Joseph Arthur Lesage was a Liberal party

Liberal Party of Canada

The Liberal Party of Canada , colloquially known as the Grits, is the oldest federally registered party in Canada. In the conventional political spectrum, the party sits between the centre and the centre-left. Historically the Liberal Party has positioned itself to the left of the Conservative...

 member of the Senate of Canada. He was born in Louiseville, Quebec

Louiseville, Quebec

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 and became an insurance broker.

The son of Hercule Lesage and Émilie Caron, he was educated at Louiseville College and the Laval Normal School. He married Emma Lachapelle in 1911. Lesage served as an alderman for Quebec City

Quebec City

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 from 1918 to 1926. He was president of Lesage Proteau Ltd. and Les publications Cartier, Ltée and vice-president of Yellow Taxi Ltd.

He was appointed to the Senate for the Gulf, Quebec division on 3 March 1944 following nomination by Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King

William Lyon Mackenzie King

William Lyon Mackenzie King, PC, OM, CMG was the dominant Canadian political leader from the 1920s through the 1940s. He served as the tenth Prime Minister of Canada from December 29, 1921 to June 28, 1926; from September 25, 1926 to August 7, 1930; and from October 23, 1935 to November 15, 1948...

. Lesage remained in that role until his death on 9 March 1950.

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