Pierre Boutin was a farmer and political figure in Quebec

Quebec

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. He represented Bellechasse

Bellechasse (provincial electoral district)

Bellechasse is a provincial electoral riding in the province of Quebec, Canada. Located in the Chaudière-Appalaches region, the riding was created in 1867...

 in the Legislative Assembly of Quebec

Legislative Assembly of Quebec

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 from 1878 to 1881 as a Liberal.

He was born in Saint-Henri

Saint-Henri-de-Lévis, Quebec

Saint-Henri is a municipality of 4,784 people, 20 km south of Lévis, in the Bellechasse Regional County Municipality. It used to belong to the former Desjardins Regional County Municipality, but decided to join Bellechasse in 2000 when the new city of Lévis was created...

, Lower Canada

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, the son of Pierre Boutin and Rose Morisset, and was educated there. Boutin also served as justice of the peace

Justice of the Peace

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 at Saint-Raphaël

Saint-Raphaël, Quebec

Saint-Raphaël is a small village of about 2,400 people in the Bellechasse Regional County Municipality, Quebec, part of the Chaudière-Appalaches administrative region. It has several small buildings and a very small supermarket....

. In 1848, he married Esther Bernard. Boutin was an unsuccessful candidate in Bellechasse in an 1875 federal by-election. He was elected to the Quebec assembly in 1878, defeating the incumbent Pierre Fradet

Pierre Fradet

Pierre Fradet was a carpenter and political figure in Quebec. He represented Bellechasse in the Legislative Assembly of Quebec from 1875 to 1878 as a Conservative....

, but was defeated by Narcisse-Henri-Édouard Faucher de Saint-Maurice when he ran for reelection in 1881. Boutin died at Beauport

Beauport, Quebec

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at the age of 79 and was buried in Saint-Raphaël.