Henri A. Gosselin was a Liberal party

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 member of the Canadian House of Commons

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. He was born in Lee, Massachusetts

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, United States

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 and moved to Canada in 1896. He became a farmer, telegrapher and train dispatcher by career.

Gosselin studied at Lawrenceville and at Sherbrooke College in Quebec. From 1924 to 1927, he was a municipal councillor for Farnham, Quebec

Farnham, Quebec

Farnham is a town located in the province of Quebec, Canada. It is part of the Brome-Missisquoi regional county municipality, in the administrative region of Montérégie. The population as of the Canada 2006 Census was 7,809, making it the second most populated community in the RCM.- History :The...

 and was mayor of Lawrenceville in 1927. He was Farnham's mayor from 1932 to 1938.

In 1939, Gosselin was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Quebec

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 in the Missisquoi riding

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 as a Quebec Liberal Party member and re-elected for a second term there in 1944. He was defeated in the 1948 provincial election by Jean-Jacques Bertrand

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 of the Union Nationale party.

Gosselin was first elected to federal Parliament at the Brome—Missisquoi

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 riding in the 1949 election

Canadian federal election, 1949

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. Before completing his first federal term, the 21st Canadian Parliament

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The 21st Canadian Parliament was in session from September 15, 1949 until June 13, 1953. The membership was set by the 1949 federal election on June 27, 1949, and it changed only somewhat due to resignations and by-elections until it was dissolved prior to the 1953 election.It was controlled by a...

, Gosselin died on 27 January 1952.

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