Background
He was born on February 1, 1857.
politician Member of the National Assembly
He was born on February 1, 1857.
In 1912 though Lafontaine lost re-election against Liberal Rodolphe Tourville. He died on October 28, 1919 in Louiseville, Mauricie.
Lafontaine, who was a Conservative won a 1904 provincial by-election in the district of Maskinongé. He was re-elected in the general election held in that same year and in 1908, even though each time the Liberals won nearly all the other seats. Lafontaine also ran in 1917 in the federal district of Maskinongé, but finished third behind winner Hormisdas Mayrand of the Liberal Party and candidate Adolphe-Joseph Thibodeau.
He served as an official opposition Member of the Legislative Assembly in the early twentieth century.