Career
He represented Huntingdon in the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada from 1848 to 1851. He was born Joseph-Tancrède-Cyrille Sauvageau in Châteauguay, Lower Canada, the son of Alexis Sauvageau and Marguerite Bougrette, dit Dufort, and was educated at the Petit Séminaire de Montréal. Sauvageau operated a distillery at Laprairie.
He was mayor of Laprairie-de-la-Madeleine.
In 1855, he was named registrar for Huntingdon County. Around 1872, Sauvageau left Quebec and moved to Saint Louis, Missouri, where he died at the age of 73.