predecessor successor death_date birth_place death_place party office birth_date term_start image article_title term_end name
cuthbert-alphonse chênevert cuthbert-alphonse chênevert 03 june 1931 saint-cuthbert , canada east montreal , quebec conservative member of the legislative assembly of quebec for berthier 01 february 1860 1892 victor allard.png victor allard
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victor allard

victor allard -lrb- february 1 , 1860 -- june 3 , 1931 -rrb- was a lawyer , judge and political figure in quebec .
he represented berthier in the legislative assembly of quebec from 1892 to 1897 as a conservative .
he was born in saint-cuthbert , canada east , the son of prospère allard and geneviève aurez laférière , and was educated at the collège de l'assomption and the université laval .
he articled with joseph-aldéric ouimet , was called to the quebec bar in 1884 and set up practice in berthierville .
in 1885 , he married blanche dorval .
allard was mayor of berthier from 1899 to 1903 and from 1912 to 1915 .
he was an unsuccessful candidate for a seat in the quebec assembly in 1890 , losing to cuthbert-alphonse chênevert .
he defeated chênevert in 1892 and then was defeated when he ran for reelection in 1897 .
allard was an unsuccessful candidate again in an 1904 by-election .
he was also defeated when he ran for a federal seat for berthier in 1891 and 1908 .
in 1916 , he was named to the quebec superior court for montreal district ; he was named to the court of king 's bench at montreal in 1920 .
allard died in montreal at the age of 71 .
