Étienne-Claude Lagueux (October 1765 – August 3, 1842) was a merchant and political figure in

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. He represented

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in the Legislative Assembly of Lower Canada from 1814 to 1824 and from 1827 to 1830. He was born Claude-Joseph Lagueux in Cap-Saint-Ignace, the son of Pierre Lagueux and Marie Tremblay. In 1789, he married Cécile Grihault dit Larivière. Lagueux did not run for reelection in 1824 or in 1830. He died in

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at the age of 76. His nephew

Louis Lagueux Louis Lagueux (November 20, 1793 – June 15, 1832) was a lawyer and political figure in Lower Canada. He was born in the town of Quebec in 1793, the son of merchant Louis Lagueux and Louise Bégin, whose father Charles Bégin served in the ...

also served in the assembly. His wife's sister Angèle married John Cannon, another member of the assembly.

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