He was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Lower Canada in 1796 for Cornwallis county, for the Parti canadien.
He died in office at the age of 35, in a shipwreck near Grosse-ÃŽle island in the Saint Lawrence River, off the coast of Kamouraska, Quebec; his body was found the following June.
He married Marie-Josephte Pelletier in 1786.