Hector Dupuis

Hector Dupuis
Member of Parliament
for St. Mary
In office
October 1950 – August 1953
Member of Parliament
for Sainte-Marie
In office
August 1953 – March 1958
Personal details
Born(1896-02-13)13 February 1896
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Died12 November 1967(1967-11-12) (aged 71)
Political partyLiberal
Professionagent, businessman, insurance broker

Hector Dupuis (13 February 1896 – 12 November 1967) was a Liberal party and Reconstruction Party member of the House of Commons of Canada. He was born in Montreal, Quebec and became an agent, businessman and insurance broker by career.

Dupuis made an unsuccessful attempt to win federal office as a Reconstruction Party candidate at St. Mary riding in the 1935 federal election. His next campaign was as a Liberal candidate in a by-election at St. Mary on 16 October 1950 where he won a seat in Parliament. After his riding was renamed Sainte-Marie in 1952, he was re-elected for successive full terms in 1953 and 1957 then defeated by Georges Valade of the Progressive Conservative party in the 1958 election.

Having been awarded an MBE on July 1, 1946, Dupuis later returned the honour in response to the members of The Beatles receiving the same distinction in 1965.[1]

1953 Canadian federal election: Sainte-Marie
Party Candidate Votes
Liberal Hector Dupuis 16,288
Progressive Conservative Jean-Paul Boisjoly 5,033
Co-operative Commonwealth Samuel Daoust 553
Labor–Progressive Roger Messier 241
1957 Canadian federal election: Sainte-Marie
Party Candidate Votes
Liberal Hector Dupuis 12,532
Progressive Conservative Georges Valade 7,041
Co-operative Commonwealth Eugène Dorais 752

References

  1. ^ Wardle, Drew. The reason why John Lennon returned his MBE. Far Out Magazine. 25 July 2021. https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/why-john-lennon-returned-his-mbe/


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