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{{Short description|Canadian politician}}
{{Use Canadian English|date=June 2012}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=May 2022}}
{{Infobox officeholder
| honorific-prefix = [[The Honourable]]
| name             = Thomas Vien
| honorific-suffix = [[Queen's Privy Council for Canada|PC]], [[Queen's Counsel|QC]], [[Doctor of Laws|LL.D]]
| image            = Thomas Vien.jpg
| imagesize        = 
| smallimage       = 
| caption          =

| constituency_MP  = [[Lotbinière (federal electoral district)|Lotbinière]]
| parliament       = Canadian
| predecessor      = [[Edmond Fortier]]
| successor        = [[Joseph-Achille Verville]]
| term_start       = 1917
| term_end         = 1925

| constituency_MP2 = [[Outremont (electoral district)|Outremont]]
| parliament2      = Canadian
| predecessor2     = District was created in 1933
| successor2       = [[Léo Richer Laflèche]]
| term_start2      = 1935
| term_end2        = 1942

| office3          = [[Senate of Canada|Senator]] for [[List of Quebec senators#De Lorimier|De Lorimier, Quebec]]
| appointed3       = [[William Lyon Mackenzie King]]
| term_start3      = 5 October 1942
| term_end3        = 1 April 1968
| predecessor3     = [[Raoul Dandurand]]
| successor3       = [[Raymond Eudes]]

| birth_date       = {{birth date|1881|7|19|df=y}}
| birth_place      = Lauzon, Quebec
| death_date       = {{death date and age|1972|11|18|1881|7|19|df=y}}
| death_place      = 
| party            = [[Liberal Party of Canada|Liberal]]
| spouse           = 
| profession       = [[Solicitor]] and [[barrister]], [[lawyer]], [[politician]]
| religion         = 
| signature        = 
| footnotes        = 
}}

'''Thomas Vien''', {{Post-nominals|country=CAN|PC|QC}} (19 July 1881 &ndash; 18 November 1972) was a [[Canadians|Canadian]] politician.

Born in [[Lauzon, Quebec]] on 19 July 1881. He studied at the [[Royal Military College of Canada]] in [[Kingston, Ontario]], then studied law at the Collège de Lévis. After, he studied law at the [[Université Laval]]. He was called to the Quebec Bar in 1905. He practiced with several law firms before becoming senior partner of Vien, Paré, Gould and Vien, of [[Montreal]], [[Quebec]].

He was first elected to the [[House of Commons of Canada]] for the Quebec riding of [[Lotbinière (federal electoral district)|Lotbinière]] as a [[Laurier Liberal]] in the [[1917 Canadian federal election|1917 federal election]]. He was re-elected in [[1921 Canadian federal election|1921]] but did not run in [[1925 Canadian federal election|1925]]. From 1922 to 1923, he served as chairman of the House of Commons Public Accounts Committee. From 1924 to 1925, he was chairman of the Banking and Commerce Committee. From 1925 to 1931, he was the deputy chief commissioner of the Board of Railway Commissioners for Canada.

After returning to his legal practice, he was elected in [[1935 Canadian federal election|1935 federal election]] for the riding of [[Outremont (electoral district)|Outremont]]. From 1936 to 1940, he served as chairman of the Standing Committee on Railways, Canals and Telegraph Lines.

He was re-elected in [[1940 Canadian federal election|1940]]. From 1940 to 1942, he was the Deputy Speaker and Chairman of Committees of the Whole of the House of Commons. In 1942, he was appointed to the [[Senate of Canada]] representing the senatorial division of De Lorimier, Quebec. From 1943 to 1945, he was the [[Speaker of the Senate of Canada]]. At the age of 87, in 1968, he resigned his senate seat. He died four years later in Montreal.

== electoral record ==
{{1917 Canadian federal election/Lotbinière}}
{{1921 Canadian federal election/Lotbinière}}

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
* {{Canadian Parliament links|ID=9362}}
* [http://www.parl.gc.ca/information/about/people/Key/SP-BL/sen/index.asp?Language=E&param=2&id=1789 Speakers of the Senate biography]

{{Speakers of the Canadian Senate}}

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[[Category:1881 births]]
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[[Category:Canadian senators from Quebec]]
[[Category:Liberal Party of Canada MPs]]
[[Category:Liberal Party of Canada senators]]
[[Category:Laurier Liberals]]
[[Category:Members of the House of Commons of Canada from Quebec]]
[[Category:Members of the King's Privy Council for Canada]]
[[Category:Speakers of the Senate of Canada]]
[[Category:Royal Military College of Canada alumni]]
[[Category:People from Lévis, Quebec]]
[[Category:Politicians from Chaudière-Appalaches]]
[[Category:Université Laval alumni]]
[[Category:20th-century members of the House of Commons of Canada]]
[[Category:20th-century members of the Senate of Canada]]