He was the first Member of Parliament to have been elected to the House of Commons of Canada representing the Bloc populaire canadien and was also the last surviving member of the Bloc populaire's caucus when he died in 1999 at the age of 93.
[1] Choquette entered parliament via an August 9, 1943 by-election in Stanstead in the Eastern Townships of Quebec which he stood in the midst of the Conscription Crisis for the anti-draft party.
He defeated former MP Robert Davison of the governing Liberal Party of Canada by more than 1200 votes.
While Davidson won most of the English vote in the by-election, Choquette cornered the francophone vote with the support of the president of the Catholic Farmers Union and of legendary Quebec politician Henri Bourassa who campaigned on his behalf.
[1] He sat in the House of Commons for two years before being defeated in the 1945 federal election by Progressive Conservative John Thomas Hackett by less than 500 votes.