predecessor parliament successor appointed constituency_mp birth_place death_date party office birth_date term_start image article_title term_end name
joseph-rodolphe ouimet gustave benjamin boyer canadian joseph thauvette arthur sauvé william lyon mackenzie king vaudreuil -- soulanges montreal , quebec 03 march 1934 liberal senator for rigaud , quebec 14 june 1863 1925 1930 buste de lawrence alexander wilson.jpg lawrence alexander wilson
 1929 1934 lawrence alexander wilson
lawrence alexander wilson

lawrence alexander wilson -lrb- june 14 , 1863 - march 3 , 1934 -rrb- was a quebec business , philanthropic and political figure .
he was prominent in the coteau-du-lac , quebec and the soulanges region .
the wilson family came from aberdeen , scotland and settled in quebec in the nineteenth century .
lawrence alexander wilson was born in montreal .
from 1889 to 1921 he built up a business as a wholesale wine and liquor merchant .
in 1906 , he founded the quebec land company , a property development firm .
he entered politics in the 1920s and was elected to the canadian house of commons in the 1925 federal election as the liberal mp for vaudreuil -- soulanges and was re-elected in 1926 federal election .
wilson resigned his seat in february 1929 intending to retire from politics but was persuaded to run in the by-election to succeed himself and was returned to the house of commons in july 1929 .
wilson was appointed to the canadian senate by william lyon mackenzie king in june 1930 and died in office four years later .
in 1923 , wilson donated part of his property to the town of coteau-du-lac for the creation of a park and $ 5,000 to construct a pavilion which was named after him .
wilson 's brother-in-law was quebec legislator maurice perrault .
