Joseph-Léon-Vital Mallette (16 September 1888 – 17 April 1939) was a

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member of the

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. He was born in

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and became a miller and secretary-treasurer. Mallette was mayor of

from 1923 to 1927, after terms as a community alderman from 1915 to 1917 and from 1922 to 1923. He was elected to Parliament at the

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riding in the 1935 general election. In 1937, Mallette spoke in the House of Commons of the representative politics that followed the

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a century earlier, in which his grandfather was a Patriote. His speech carried an implied charge that Prime Minister

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had ignored the centennial of the rebellion. Before he was able to complete his first term, the

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, Mallette died on 17 April 1939 after he collapsed while crossing a Montreal street.

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* 1888 births 1939 deaths Liberal Party of Canada MPs 20th-century mayors of places in Quebec Members of the House of Commons of Canada from Quebec People from Pointe-Claire 20th-century members of the House of Commons of Canada {{Quebec-mayor-stub