Léon Méthot was a Progressive Conservative Party

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 member of the Senate of Canada. He was born in Trois-Rivières

Trois-Rivières

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, Quebec

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 and became a lawyer.

The son of Georges Méthot and E. Rousseau, he was educated at the Séminaire de Trois-Rivières and the Université Laval

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, was called to the Quebec bar in 1919 and practised in Trois-Rivières

Trois-Rivières, Quebec

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. In 1929, he was named King's Counsel.

Méthot made attempts to gain a Canadian House of Commons

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 seat at the Three Rivers riding

Trois-Rivières (electoral district)

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, first as a Conservative

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 in the 1935 election

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 then as a Progressive Conservative

Progressive Conservative Party of Canada

The Progressive Conservative Party of Canada was a Canadian political party with a centre-right stance on economic issues and, after the 1970s, a centrist stance on social issues....

 in the 1945 election

Canadian federal election, 1945

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. He was unsuccessful with both these campaigns.

He was appointed to the Senate for the Shawinigan, Quebec division on 12 October 1957 following nomination by Prime Minister John Diefenbaker

John Diefenbaker

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. Méthot remained in that role until his death on 6 August 1972.

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