Louis-Eugène-Aduire Parrot

Who is Louis-Eugène-Aduire Parrot?

Louis-Eugène-Aduire Parrot was a Canadian physician and politician.

Born in Sainte-Emmélie, near Lotbinière, Quebec, Parrot studied at the Séminaire de Québec and the Université Laval. He became a physician in 1897 and practised general medicine in Deschaillons from 1897 to 1905. He did a surgery internship in Paris in 1905 and 1906. Returning to Quebec, he was a physician and surgeon in Fraserville from 1907 to 1939.

Parrot was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Quebec for Témiscouata in 1916. A Liberal, he was acclaimed in 1919. He resigned in 1921. He was defeated as the Liberal candidate for the Canadian House of Commons in a 1924 by-election in Témiscouata losing to Jean-François Pouliot.

He died in Quebec City in 1948.