# Arthur Trahan

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**Arthur Trahan**, (May 26, 1877 – September 22, 1950) was a [Canadian](/source/Canadians) lawyer, judge and political figure in [Quebec](/source/Quebec). He represented [Nicolet](/source/Nicolet_(provincial_electoral_district)) in the [Legislative Assembly of Quebec](/source/Legislative_Assembly_of_Quebec) from 1913 to 1917 and [Nicolet](/source/Nicolet_(federal_electoral_district)) in the [House of Commons of Canada](/source/House_of_Commons_of_Canada) from 1917 to 1923 as a [:Liberal](/source/Liberal_Party_of_Canada).[1]

He was born in [Nicolet, Quebec](/source/Nicolet,_Quebec), the son of Narcisse Trahan and Adéline-Rébecca Rousseau, and was educated at the Séminaire de Nicolet and the [Université Laval](/source/Universit%C3%A9_de_Montr%C3%A9al) in Montreal. He was admitted to the Quebec bar in 1901 and set up practice in Nicolet. He was married twice: to Joséphine Dufresne in 1902 and to Diane Leduc in 1924. Trahan served as a member of the municipal council for Nicolet from 1911 to 1919. He was named [King's Counsel](/source/King's_Counsel) in 1912. Trahan was bâtonnier for Trois-Rivières district in 1916 and 1917. He resigned his seat in the provincial assembly in 1917 to run for a federal seat. In 1923, Trahan resigned his seat in the House of Commons after he was named to the [Quebec Superior Court](/source/Quebec_Superior_Court). He died in [Montreal](/source/Montreal) at the age of 73 and was buried in Nicolet.[2]

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