Gustave Monette

{{Short description|Canadian politician}}

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| name=Gustave Monette

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| birth_date={{birth date|df=yes|1887|3|1}}

| birth_place=Saint-Philippe-de-Laprairie, Quebec

| death_date={{death date and age|1969|12|23|1887|3|1|df=yes}}

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| spouse=Blanche Séguin

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| office=Senator for Mille Isles, Quebec

| predecessor=Armand Daigle

| successor=Thérèse Casgrain

| term_start=12 October 1957

| term_end=23 December 1969

| appointed=John Diefenbaker

| profession=Barrister and solicitor

| party=Progressive Conservative

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Gustave Monette (1 March 1887 – 23 December 1969) was a Progressive Conservative Party member of the Senate of Canada. He was born in Saint-Philippe-de-Laprairie, Quebec and became a barrister and solicitor.

The son of Eugène Monette and Marie Roy, he was educated in Sainte-Thérèse de Blainville and at the Université de Montréal and practised law in Montreal. In 1914, he married Blanche Séguin.{{cite book |title=The Canadian Directory of Parliament 1867–1967 |last=Johnson |first=J.K. |year=1968 |publisher=Public Archives of Canada}}

Monette and his cousin Philippe Monette were defence lawyers for Adélard Delorme, a Roman Catholic priest accused of murdering his stepbrother.{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8U2gb-NZiFoC&pg=RA1-PA46 |title=The cassock and the crown: Canada's most controversial murder trial |page=46 |last=Monet |first=Jean |year=1996 |isbn=0-7735-1449-X}}

Monette made attempts to gain a House of Commons of Canada seat at the Laprairie—Napierville riding as a Conservative in the 1911 and 1930 elections. He was unsuccessful with both these campaigns.

He was appointed to the Senate on 12 October 1957 for the Mille Isles, Quebec division following nomination by Prime Minister John Diefenbaker. Monette remained in that role until his death on 23 December 1969.