J.-Eugène Lefrançois
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J.-Eugène Lefrançois was a Liberal party
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 member of the Canadian House of Commons
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 and the Senate. He was born in Montreal
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, Quebec
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 and became an industrialist by career.

In 1936, Lefrançois made an unsuccessful attempt to win a seat in the Legislative Assembly of Quebec
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.

He was first elected to Parliament at the Laurier
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 riding in the 1949 general election
Canadian federal election, 1949
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 and re-elected for a second term in 1953
Canadian federal election, 1953
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. In April 1957, as he completed his House of Commons term in the 22nd Canadian Parliament
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, Lefrançois was appointed to the Senate under Quebec's Repentigny constituency where he remained until 5 November 1976.

Lefrançois died on 13 January 1979 aged 82, survived by his wife Rosina, a son and a daughter.

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