Ulysse-Janvier Robillard (1826 – January 1, 1900) was a Quebec

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 merchant and political figure. He represented Beauharnois

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 in the Canadian House of Commons

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 from 1872 to 1878 as an Independent Conservative.

He was born in Ste-Geneviève

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, Lower Canada

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, the son of Joseph Robillard, and was educated there. Robillard was mayor of Beauharnois

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 from 1864 to 1866. He was a produce and grain merchant in Beauharnois. Robillard was married twice: first to Eulalie Paiement and then to Marie-Virginie Lanaud in 1871. He died in Montreal

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at the age of 74.