Joseph Arthur Lortie was a physician and political figure in Quebec

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. He represented Soulanges

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 in the Canadian House of Commons

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 from 1908 to 1911 and Soulanges

Soulanges (provincial electoral district)

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 in the Legislative Assembly of Quebec

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 from 1923 to 1927 as a Conservative.

He was born in Sainte-Justine-de-Newton, Quebec

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, the son of Joseph Lortie and Marie-Julienne Montpetit, and was educated at the Collège Bourget

Collège Bourget

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 and the Université Laval

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. He received his qualifications as a doctor in 1895 and set up practice in St-Polycarpe

Saint-Polycarpe, Quebec

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. In 1900, he married Marie-Anna Gladu. Lortie served on the municipal council of St-Polycarpe from 1908 to 1909. He was defeated when he ran for reelection to the House of Commons in 1911 and to the Quebec assembly in 1927. Lortie died at Coteau-du-Lac

Coteau-du-Lac, Quebec

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at the age of 89.