Louis-Napoléon Asselin, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Canadian politician
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Place of Birth: Saint-François-de-l'Île-d'Orléans, Quebec, Canada
About Louis-Napoléon Asselin
- Louis-Napoléon Asselin (July 22, 1850 – July 22, 1921) was a lawyer and political figure in Quebec, Canada.
- He represented Rimouski in the Legislative Assembly of Quebec from 1881 to 1886 as a Conservative. He was born in Saint-François on the Île d'Orléans, Canada East, the son of Louis Asselin and Marie Laperrière, and was educated at the Séminaire de Québec and the Université Laval.
- Asselin was called to the Quebec bar in 1870 and set up practice in Rimouski.
- In 1876, he married Théotiste-Malvina-Louise Derome.
- He served as crown prosecutor for Rimouski district in 1880 and 1881.
- Asselin ran unsuccessfully for a seat in the Quebec assembly in 1880, losing to Joseph Parent, and then defeated Parent in the 1881 general election.
- He was defeated by Édouard-Onésiphore Martin when he ran for reelection in 1886, also losing a by-election in 1889 and then elections for the Quebec assembly in Matane in 1890 and in Rimouski in 1908.
- Asselin was mayor of Rimouski from 1885 to 1887, was school commissioner from 1895 to 1898 and from 1903 to 1915 and was sheriff for Rimouski from 1895 to 1898.
- He was a founder and director of the newspaper Progrès du Golfe.
- Asselin was president of the Rimouski Saint-Jean-Baptiste Society.
- In 1914, he was named a repatriation officer at Biddeford, Maine for the Canadian government, charged with encouraging former Quebec residents who had emigrated to the United States to return to Quebec.
- He died there seven years later at the age of 71.
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