Larivière ran as an Action libérale nationale candidate in the district of Témiscamingue in the 1935 provincial election and won against incumbent Joseph-Édouard Piché.
He joined Maurice Duplessis's Union Nationale and was re-elected in the 1936 election.
Larivière was defeated by Liberal candidate Paul-Oliva Goulet in the 1939 election.
Larivière lost his bid for re-election in the 1952 election and was succeeded again by Goulet.
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