Background
He was born in Quebec City to immigration agent Léonce Stein and Alma Baillairgé.
He was born in Quebec City to immigration agent Léonce Stein and Alma Baillairgé.
He was admitted to the Quebec bar that same year and became King"s Counsel in 1912. Stein practice law in Rivière-du-Loup, Quebec alongside Ernest Lapointe and Léon Casgrain who would both serve as senior cabinet ministers in the federal and provincial governments respectively. He was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Quebec as the Quebec Liberal Party Modern Language Association for Kamouraska in the 1912 provincial election and was re-elected in 1916 and 1919.
Stein was elected to the Canadian House of Commons in a 1920 by-election and was re-elected in the 1921 federal general election as the federal Liberal Party Member of Parliament for the federal riding of Kamouraska.
He resigned his seat in 1922 to accept an appointment to the Superior Court of Quebec.
Quebec Liberal Party, Liberal Party of Canada.