Louis Arthur Prud'homme, Date of Birth, Date of Death
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Canadian judge and politician
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About Louis Arthur Prud'homme
- Louis Arthur Prud'homme (November 21, 1853 – March 1, 1941) was a lawyer, judge, historian and political figure in Manitoba.
- He represented La Verendrye from 1882 to 1883 and from 1884 to 1885 in the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba as a Conservative. He was born in St.
- Urbain, Châteauguay County, Quebec, the son of Lieutenant-Colonel J.
- M.
- Prud’Homme and Marguerite D’Amour.
- Prud'homme studied law and was called to the Quebec bar in 1879 and the Manitoba bar in 1881.
- In 1880, he married Appoline C.
- Henault.
- Prud'homme served as a captain in the St.
- Boniface Infantry Company.
- He was president of the Saint-Jean-Baptiste Society of Manitoba and of the St.
- Vincent de Paul Society.
- Prud'homme was elected to the provincial assembly in an 1882 by-election held after Maxime Goulet was named registrar.
- He was defeated by Goulet when he ran for reelection in 1883 and then was again elected to the assembly in an 1884 by-election held after Goulet was unseated.
- He resigned his seat in the Manitoba assembly in 1885 after he was named a county court judge for St.
- Boniface County.Prud'homme was editor of L'Avenir de Beauharnois from 1875 to 1877 and contributed articles to La Revue Canadienne, L'Opinion publique and La Nouvelle.
- He wrote The History of Manitoba and Northwest Territories.
- Notes Historiques sur la vie de Pierre Radisson, published in 1891, and Le premier parlement de Manitoba, 1870-1874, published in 1923.Prud'homme died at home in St.
- Boniface at the age of 87.
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