Amable Jodoin was a businessman and political figure in Quebec

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. He represented Chambly in the Canadian House of Commons

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 from 1874 to 1875 as a Liberal

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 member.

He was born in Boucherville

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, Lower Canada

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, the son of Amable Jodoin and Esther Weilbrenner. Jodoin served as a member of Montreal

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 city council. He married Marie-Hélène Jodoin in 1853. Jodoin was a director of the Metropolitan Bank. In 1870, he purchased a foundry in Longueuil

Longueuil, Quebec

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. The Jodoins also purchased several properties in the Old Montreal

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 area. His election to the House of Commons in 1874 was overturned; he won the by-election which followed in 1875 but that election was again appealed; Pierre Basile Benoit

Pierre Basile Benoit

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 won the by-election held in 1876. Jodoin died four years later at the age of 51 in Beloeil, Quebec

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