boards death_place death_date religion birth_place party parents birth_date spouse residence article_title education name occupation
edmundston chamber of commerce edmundston , nb canada canada september , 2005 roman catholic saint-jacques , nb canada canada liberal party bélonie lévesque & marie thiveault 13 october 1929 carmen dupere edmundston , new brunswick laurier lévesque
 st. joseph 's college new brunswick teachers ' college laurier lévesque educator , insurance agent , politician
laurier lévesque

laurier lévesque -lrb- october 13 , 1929 -- september , 2005 -rrb- was a canadian educator and a politician in the province of new brunswick .
a graduate of st. joseph 's college in memramcook and the new brunswick teachers ' college in fredericton , laurier lévesque taught school before entering political life .
a resident of edmundston , new brunswick , he was first elected to the legislative assembly in the 1960 new brunswick general election as a liberal party candidate for one of the three seats for madawaska county .
he was reelected in 1963 , 1967 , and 1970 .
in the 1974 election , he lost by 95 votes to the progressive conservative candidate jean-pierre ouellet in the newly created riding of madawaska-les-lacs .
without the parti acadien contesting the riding , lévesque may have won .
the parti acadien received 99 votes , ones that are generally accepted as being traditional liberal supporters .
laurier lévesque attempted a political comeback in the city of edmundston riding in 1982 but lost to jean-maurice simard .
as a member of the legislative assembly in the government of premier louis robichaud , laurier lévesque was an ardent defender of francophone rights and was one of the first members to give his speeches in the assembly in the french language .
out of politics , in 1990 the government of canada appointed him to diplomatic missions abroad which organized and supervised democratic elections in 10 african countries , in 2 countries from the former soviet union , as well as in bosnia and herzegovina .
