title: Albert Goudreau
text: # Albert Goudreau
  
  Albert Goudreau (February 4, 1887 – October 12, 1962) was a Canadian politician and a four-term Member of the Legislative Assembly of Quebec.
  
  ## Background
  
  He was born in Wotton, Eastern Townships on February 4, 1887.
  
  ## City Councillor
  
  Goudreau served as a city councillor in the township of Windsor from 1916 to 1918 and in the city of Asbestos from 1933 to 1944.
  
  ## Member of the legislature
  
  Goudreau ran as a Conservative candidate in the provincial district of Richmond in the 1935 election and won against Liberal incumbent Stanislas-Edmond Desmarais.
  
  He joined Maurice Duplessis's Union Nationale and was re-elected in the 1936 election, but was defeated in the 1939 election.
  
  He was re-elected in the 1944 and the 1948 elections, but was defeated by Liberal candidate Émilien Lafrance in the 1952 election.
  
  ## Mayor
  
  He served as Mayor of Asbestos from 1945 to 1950.
  
  ## Death
  
  He died on October 12, 1962, in Sherbrooke.
  
  