Ferdinand TrudelFerdinand Trudel was a politician in Quebec, Canada.BackgroundHe was born on May 4, 1852, in Sainte-Geneviève-de-Batiscan, Mauricie, Canada East.MayorTrudel was Mayor of Saint-Stanislas from 1886 to 1888.Member of the legislatureTrudel ran as a candidate of Honoré Mercier's Parti National in 1886 and won a seat to the provincial legislature, representing the district of Champlain. In 1890 though, local Bishop Louis-François Richer Laflèche publicly supported the Conservatives. Trudel and his Nationalist colleagues from the Mauricie area were all defeated.Federal PoliticsHe also ran in the federal district of Champlain in 1891, but lost.DeathHe died in office on December 22, 1924.