Background
He was born in L"Île-Bizard, Quebec and became a notary.
He was born in L"Île-Bizard, Quebec and became a notary.
The son of Adolphe Ouimet and Clephire Nantel, he was educated at the Collège Sainte-Marie de Montréal and entered practice as a notary in Saint-Polycarpe. In 1905, Ouimet married Hortense Mousseau, the sister of Joseph-Octave Mousseau. He was elected to Parliament at the Vaudreuil—Soulanges riding in a by-election on 21 March 1922.
After serving for the remainder of the 14th Canadian Parliament, Ouimet left federal politics and did not seek another term in the 1925 election.