He represented Bellechasse in the Legislative Assembly of Quebec from 1878 to 1881 as a Liberal.
He was born in Saint-Henri, Lower Canada, the son of Pierre Boutin and Rose Morisset, and was educated there.
Boutin was an unsuccessful candidate in Bellechasse in an 1875 federal by-election.
He was elected to the Quebec assembly in 1878, defeating the incumbent Pierre Fradet, but was defeated by Narcisse-Henri-Édouard Faucher de Saint-Maurice when he ran for reelection in 1881.
Boutin died at Beauport at the age of 79 and was buried in Saint-Raphaël.