Édouard-Hippolyte Laliberté (October 13, 1845 – March 5, 1911) was a

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and political figure in

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. He represented Lotbinière in the

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from 1886 to 1900 as a Liberal. He was born in Lotbinière,

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, the son of Joseph Laliberté and Marcelline Lahaye, and was educated at the Collège Faucher there and the

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. He qualified as a notary in 1873 and set up practice in

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, later settling in Deschaillons. Laliberté was married twice: to Marie-Joséphine-Julia Durand in 1873 and to Florentine Côté in 1898. He was first elected to the Quebec assembly in an 1886 by-election held after

Henri-Gustave Joly de Lotbinière Sir Henri-Gustave Joly de Lotbinière, (December 5, 1829 – November 16, 1908) lawyer, businessman and politician served as the fourth premier of Quebec, a Canadian cabinet, federal Cabinet minister, and the List of lieutenant governors of ...

resigned his seat. After he retired from politics in 1900, he served as

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for the assembly from 1902 to 1911. Laliberté died in Deschaillons at the age of 65.

References

* Quebec Liberal Party MNAs 1845 births 1911 deaths 19th-century members of the Legislative Assembly of Quebec {{Liberal-Quebec-MNA-stub