Henry Lemaître Auger

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Henry Lemaître Auger was a Canadian politician and a two-term Member of the Legislative Assembly of Quebec.^[1]

1 Background
2 City Councillor
3 Member of the Legislature
4 Death
5 Footnotes

[edit] Background

He was born in Massachusetts on May 2, 1873 and got married to Marie-Éva Héroux in Trois-Rivières, Mauricie in 1906.

[edit] City Councillor

He ran for a seat on the city council of Montreal in 1930 and won against incumbent Damase Généreux. He represented the district of Saint-Jacques. He was re-elected in 1932 and 1934. He resigned in 1936 to enter provincial politics.

[edit] Member of the Legislature

Auger ran as a Conservative candidate in the provincial district of Montréal-Saint-Jacques in the 1935 election and won.

He joined Maurice Duplessis's Union Nationale and was re-elected in the 1936 election. He was appointed to the Cabinet and served as Minister of Colonization until his defeated against Liberal candidate Joseph-Roméo Toupin in the 1939 election.