Lionel Choquette

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]