Claim: Louis Lagueux was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Lower Canada after studying law; his grandfather and uncle also served in the legislative assembly in Canada.
Evidence: In 1820, he was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Lower Canada for Dorchester; he represented the riding until his death at Quebec from cholera in 1832. He was born in the town of Quebec in 1793, the son of merchant Louis Lagueux and Louise Bégin, whose father Charles Bégin served in the legislative assembly. His uncle Étienne-Claude Lagueux also served in the legislative assembly. Lagueux studied at the Petit Séminaire de Québec, articled in law with Joseph-Rémi Vallières de Saint-Réal and qualified to practice in 1817.