Antoine Polette

Antoine Polette (August 24, 1807 – January 6, 1887) was a Quebec lawyer, judge and political figure.

He was born Antoine Paulet in Pointe-aux-Trembles, Lower Canada in 1807 and studied at the Petit Séminaire de Québec.

He articled in law at Quebec City, was admitted to the bar in 1828 and set up practice in Trois-Rivières.

Although Polette had originally supported the government of Francis Hincks and Augustin-Norbert Morin, he participated in the defeat of this government in 1854 because of the unresolved issue of seigneurial tenure.

Polette served as a judge in the Quebec Superior Court for Trois-Rivières district from 1860 to 1880 and was a member of the royal commission that investigated the Pacific Scandal in 1873.