Career
He represented L"Assomption in the Legislative Assembly of Quebec from 1867 to 1871 as a Conservative. He was born in Lachenaie, Lower Canada, the son of Jean-Marie Mathieu and Josephte Quenneville. Mathieu was educated at the Collège Masson à Terrebonne.
He was a major in the militia, a justice of the peace and president of the agricultural society at Lachenaie.
He was also a school commissioner and was mayor of Lachenaie from 1867 to 1869. Mathieu died in Lachenaie at the age of 67.
