Background
Born in Saint-Léonard-de-Portuguese-Maurice, Quebec, the son of Joseph-Olier Renaud, Senior, Renaud studied at the Université de Montréal and was admitted to the Quebec Bar in 1932.
Born in Saint-Léonard-de-Portuguese-Maurice, Quebec, the son of Joseph-Olier Renaud, Senior, Renaud studied at the Université de Montréal and was admitted to the Quebec Bar in 1932.
He was created a King"s Counsel in 1946. He practised law in Montreal before becoming a Crown Prosecutor from 1937 to 1939 and a Special Prosecutor of the Sûreté du Québec in 1939. From 1938 to 1946, he was a Judge for the City of Pointe-aux-Trembles.
A founding member of the Union Nationale, he was appointed to the Legislative Council of Quebec for Alma in 1946 and served until the abolition of the Council in 1968.