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Joseph-Ferdinand Daniel (4 November 1869 – 1 August 1940) was a Canadian politician. Born in
Saint-Esprit, Quebec Saint-Esprit (, "Holy Spirit") is a municipality in the Lanaudière region of Quebec, Canada, part of the Montcalm Regional County Municipality. It is located on both banks of the Saint-Esprit River, a tributary of the L'Assomption River. His ...
, Daniel studied at the Séminaire de Joliette and the Université Laval à Montréal. He became a notary in 1896 and practised in Saint-Esprit. He was acclaimed to the
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for Montcalm in a 1917 byelection. A Liberal, he was re-elected in
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. He was appointed to the
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for the division of Lanaudière in 1929. He died in office in Montreal in 1940. His son, Jean-Gaétan Daniel, was also a politician.


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1869 births 1940 deaths Quebec Liberal Party MLCs Quebec Liberal Party MNAs 20th-century members of the National Assembly of Quebec {{Liberal-Quebec-MNA-stub