He represented Iberville and then St. Johns—Iberville in the House of Commons of Canada as a Liberal member from 1867 to 1896.

[1] He was born in Mount Johnson (now Mont-Saint-Grégoire), Lower Canada in 1830,[1] the son of François Béchard and Clémence Gozette,[2] and educated at the College of Saint-Hyacinthe.

[3] Béchard was named to the Senate in September 1896 and died in 1897 in Montreal while still in office.

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