Paul Poisson MC VD KSG (July 25, 1887 – December 3, 1983), was the first mayor of the town of Tecumseh, Ontario, Canada in 1921.
[2] Prior to politics and military service, Poisson ran a medical practice in Sandwich East, currently the Town of Tecumseh.
[1] After only two years of medical practice, Poisson became active in municipal politics and served a two-year term as a councillor (1912–1913) in the township of Sandwich East.
[5] Following this provincial election loss, the First World War suspended his political aspirations until 1919 when he unsuccessfully ran for a second time in the riding of Essex North.
[3] He returned provincial politics in 1926 by winning the Essex North riding, without opposition, and served as minister without portfolio in the cabinet of Conservative Premier George S. Henry from 1931 to 1934.
After serving four years, eight months in World War I, Poisson arrived home with the promotion from Captain to Major and decorations from King George V at Buckingham Palace in 1916.
[2] Despite the appointment as Registrar of Deeds for Essex County – to which retired from in 1959 – Poisson dedicated his post political and military years to “leadership in various religious, educational and bilingual groups.”[2] "He received one of the highest honours that can be bestowed upon a layman by the Catholic Church" when Bishop Cody endowed Poisson “with the Order of St. Gregory (K.S.G.