Télesphore-Eusèbe Normand (August 18, 1832 – April 3, 1918) was a politician from
Quebec
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, Canada.
Background
He was born on August 18, 1832, in
Quebec City
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. He was a notary. He was married to Alphonsine Giroux in 1856 and to Marie Dufresne in 1893.
Mayor of Trois-Rivières
Normand served as a Council member from 1861 to 1865 and as a Mayor of Trois-Rivières from 1873 to 1876 and from 1889 to 1894.
Provincial Politics
He ran as a
Liberal candidate in the district of
Champlain
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in
1867 and
1871
Events January–March
* January 3 – Franco-Prussian War – Battle of Bapaume: Prussians win a strategic victory.
* January 18 – Proclamation of the German Empire: The member states of the North German Confederation and the sou ...
. Each time he lost. He also lost an 1876
by-election
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as a
Conservative
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in the district of
Trois-Rivières
Trois-Rivières (, – 'Three Rivers') is a city in the Mauricie administrative region of Quebec, Canada, at the confluence of the Saint-Maurice and Saint Lawrence rivers, on the north shore of the Saint Lawrence River across from the city of ...
.
However he won the general election in the same district in
1890
Events
January–March
* January 1
** The Kingdom of Italy establishes Eritrea as its colony, in the Horn of Africa.
** In Michigan, the wooden steamer ''Mackinaw'' burns in a fire on the Black River.
* January 2
** The steamship '' ...
and
1892. The 1892 general election was cancelled, but he won the by-election that followed. He was re-elected in
1897
Events
January–March
* January 2 – The International Alpha Omicron Pi sorority is founded, in New York City.
* January 4 – A British force is ambushed by Chief Ologbosere, son-in-law of the ruler. This leads to a punit ...
, but did not run for re-election in
1900
As of March 1 ( O.S. February 17), when the Julian calendar acknowledged a leap day and the Gregorian calendar did not, the Julian calendar fell one day further behind, bringing the difference to 13 days until February 28 ( O.S. February 15), ...
.
Death
Normand died on April 3, 1918.
Footnotes
1832 births
1918 deaths
Conservative Party of Quebec MNAs
Mayors of Trois-Rivières
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