Valmore Bienvenue was a lawyer and political figure in Quebec

Quebec

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. He represented Bellechasse

Bellechasse (provincial electoral district)

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 in the Legislative Assembly of Quebec

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 from 1939 to 1948 as a Liberal. Bienvenue was Speaker of the Legislative Assembly

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 in 1942.

He was born in Nashua, New Hampshire

Nashua, New Hampshire

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, the son of Hormisdas Bienvenue and Angéline Beaupré. Bienvenue was educated at the Collège Sacré-Coeur in Saint-Hyacinthe

Saint-Hyacinthe, Quebec

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, at the Séminaire Saint-Charles Borromée and the Université Laval

Université Laval

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. He was called to the Quebec bar in 1917 and set up practice in Quebec City

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. Bienvenue practised in partnership with Élisée Thériault

Élisée Thériault

Élisée Thériault was a lawyer and political figure in Quebec. He represented L'Islet in the Legislative Assembly of Quebec from 1916 to 1929 as a Liberal....

, Oscar Drouin

Oscar Drouin

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, Henri-Paul Drouin and Jean Lesage

Jean Lesage

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. He was named King's Counsel in 1927. Bienvenue served in the provincial cabinet as Minister of Hunting and Fishing from 1942 to 1944. He was defeated when he ran for reelection in 1948. He served as judge in the Quebec Superior Court

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 for Quebec district from 1950 to 1952.

Bienvenue was married twice: first to Eugénie Masse and then, in 1925, to Charlotte Langlois. He died in Hull

Hull, Quebec

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 at the age of 57 and was buried in the Cimetière Notre-Dame-de-Belmont

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 at Sainte-Foy

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His son Jean also served in the Quebec assembly.