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Alphonse Couturier (Liberal politician)

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Name
  
Alphonse Couturier

Role
  
Legislator

Party
  
Quebec Liberal Party


Alphonse Couturier (15 December 1902 – 11 August 1995) was a Canadian member of the Legislative Assembly of Quebec for the Quebec Liberal Party.

He studied medicine at the Université Laval, becoming a doctor in 1930. He studied further at the Post Graduate Medical School in New York City. He obtained a specialist certificate in general surgery in 1951. He worked as a surgeon in Rivière-du-Loup, Quebec until 1970, and then in Quebec City until 1982.

He was a school commissioner in Rivière-du-Loup from 1942 to 1948. He first ran for the Legislative Assembly in Rivière-du-Loup electoral district in the 1952 Quebec general election for the Quebec Liberal Party, but was defeated. However, he was elected in 1956, and re-elected in 1960 and 1962, but was defeated in 1966. He was Minister of Health from 1960 to 1965, and Minister of Tourism from 1965 to 1966.

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Alphonse Couturier (Liberal politician) Wikipedia