Lionel Henri Choquette (March 6, 1906 – September 27, 1983) was a Canadian lawyer and politician, who served in the Senate of Canada from 1958 to 1981.[1]
Choquette was born in Ottawa, Ontario. He was called to the Ontario bar in 1932 and opened his law practice in Ottawa.[1]
He was a two-time candidate in Ottawa East for a seat in the House of Commons of Canada, running in the 1935 federal election as a Conservative,[2] and again in the 1949 election as a Progressive Conservative candidate.[3]
Choquette was appointed to the Senate of Canada by Prime Minister John Diefenbaker in 1958,[4] and remained there until reaching mandatory retirement age in 1981.[1]
He died on September 27, 1983, at the Montfort Hospital in Ottawa, three days after suffering a stroke at his home.[1]
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