Rosaire Gendron was a Liberal party

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 member of the Canadian House of Commons

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. Born in Saint-François-Xavier, Quebec, he was a Chartered Accountant

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 by career.

Gendron attended schools in Saint-François-Xavier, Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pocatiere, Saint-Victor, Lévis then Université Laval

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After an unsuccessful attempt to win the Rivière-du-Loup—Témiscouata

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 electoral district in the 1962 federal election

Canadian federal election, 1962

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, he won that riding in the 1963 election

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. Gendron was re-elected in the 1965

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, 1972

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, 1974

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, 1979

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 and 1980 elections

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. He left federal politics after serving six terms from the 27th

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 to the 32nd Canadian Parliament

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Between 1956 and 1968 he was mayor of Rivière-du-Loup, Quebec

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, also serving as president of the Union of Municipalities of Quebec in 1964-1965. He also served as executive vice-president for the Chamber of Commerce of Quebec at one time.

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