Eugène Alphonse Dyer was a merchant, farmer and political figure in Quebec

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. He represented Brome

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 in the Canadian House of Commons

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 from 1891 to 1896 as a Conservative

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 member.

He was born in Sutton

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, Lower Canada

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, the son of George C. Dyer. Dyer served on the council for Sutton and was mayor and county warden. He also served as secretary-treasurer for the township school commission. His election in 1891 was overturned after an appeal but Dyer won the by-election that followed in 1892. He was married twice: to Harriet Jackson in 1860 and then to Adaline J. Carpenter in 1869.