Napoléon Belcourt
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The Hon. Napoléon Antoine Belcourt P.C., QC |
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| 10th Speaker of the Canadian House of Commons | |
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In office March 10, 1904 – January 10, 1905 |
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| Monarch | Edward VII |
| Governor General |
The Earl of Minto The Earl Grey |
| Prime Minister | Sir Wilfrid Laurier |
| Preceded by | Louis-Philippe Brodeur |
| Succeeded by | Robert Franklin Sutherland |
| Member of the Canadian Parliament for Ottawa (City of) |
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In office 1896–1907 |
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| Preceded by | William H. Hutchison |
| Succeeded by | Thomas Birkett |
| Senator for Ottawa, Ontario | |
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In office 1907–1932 |
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| Appointed by | Wilfrid Laurier |
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September 15, 1860 Toronto, Canada West |
| Died | August 7, 1932 (aged 71) Blue Sea Lake, Quebec |
| Relations | Joseph Shehyn, Father-in-law |
| Committees | Chair, Special Committee on Administration of the Canteen Fund and the Disablement Fund, and the Manufacture and Sale of Paper Poppies |
Napoléon Antoine Belcourt, PC, QC (September 15, 1860 – August 7, 1932) was a Franco-Ontarian parliamentarian in Canada.
Belcourt was born in Toronto to French-Canadian parents, Ferdinand-Napoléon Belcourt and Marie-Anne Clair, and raised in Trois-Rivières, Quebec. He studied law at Université Laval, was called to the Quebec bar in 1882 and began his legal practice in Montreal in 1882 before moving to Ottawa in 1884. Belcourt was called to the Ontario bar in 1884. He joined the law faculty at the University of Ottawa in 1891, and became proprietor of the newspaper Le Temps which supported the Liberal Party of Wilfrid Laurier. Belcourt served as clerk of the peace and crown attorney for Carleton County from 1894 to 1896. In 1899, he was named Queen's Counsel.
He was married twice: to Hectorine, the daughter of Senator Joseph Shehyn, in 1889 and to Mary Margaret Haycock in 1903.
He first ran for a seat in the Canadian House of Commons in the 1891 election but was defeated. He won a seat in the 1896 election, and used his position as a Member of Parliament (MP) to lobby in favour of the Franco-Ontarian community.
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