Alexandre Cyr (12 November 1922 – 17 August 2006) was a

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member of the

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. He was born in

Chandler, Quebec Chandler () is a town in the Gaspésie–Îles-de-la-Madeleine region of Quebec, Canada. It is the second-most populous town on the Gaspé Peninsula after the Gaspé, Quebec, Town of Gaspé. It was known as Pabos between June 27, 2001 and May 4, ...

and his career included several positions including businessman, executive, accountant, public servant, secretary and secretary-treasurer. Cyr was first elected at the Gaspé electoral district in the 1963 federal election. He was defeated there in the 1965 election, but regained the seat in the following election in 1968. He was re-elected for successive terms in

1972 Within the context of Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) it was the longest year ever, as two leap seconds were added during this 366-day year, an event which has not since been repeated. (If its start and end are defined using Solar time, ...

1974 Major events in 1974 include the aftermath of the 1973 oil crisis and the resignation of United States President Richard Nixon following the Watergate scandal. In the Middle East, the aftermath of the 1973 Yom Kippur War determined politics; ...

1979 Events January * January 1 ** United Nations Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim heralds the start of the ''International Year of the Child''. Many musicians donate to the ''Music for UNICEF Concert'' fund, among them ABBA, who write the song ...

and

1980 Events January * January 4 – U.S. President Jimmy Carter proclaims a United States grain embargo against the Soviet Union, grain embargo against the USSR with the support of the European Commission. * January 6 – Global Positioning Sys ...

. In the 1984 federal election, Cyr was defeated by

Charles-Eugène Marin Charles-Eugène Marin (29 October 1925 7 June 2017) was a member of the House of Commons of Canada. Born in Ste-Anne-des-Monts, Quebec, he was a physician and psychiatrist by career. He represented the Quebec riding of Gaspé where he was f ...

of the Progressive Conservative party.

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* * 1922 births 2006 deaths Members of the House of Commons of Canada from Quebec Liberal Party of Canada MPs 20th-century members of the House of Commons of Canada {{Liberal-Quebec-MP-stub