Edmond Anthony Lapierre (25 January 1866 – 20 June 1960) was a

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member of the House of Commons of Canada. He was born in

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and became a sales representative. Lapierre attended St. Mary's Academy in

. He worked with Greenshields in that city for 18 years. Moving to northern Ontario, he became a member of Sudbury's Board of Trade and was a director of the Mattawa Fur Company, and served on various associations. He was first elected to Parliament at the Nipissing riding in the 1921 general election after an unsuccessful campaign as a

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there in the 1917 election. Lapierre was re-elected in

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over Conservative candidate John Ferguson, and in

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over Conservative candidate and former Sudbury mayor

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. He left federal politics at the end of his term in the

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and did not seek another term in the 1930 election. He was subsequently a member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario for the provincial Liberals from 1934 to 1937.

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* 1866 births 1960 deaths Franco-Ontarian people Liberal Party of Canada MPs Ontario Liberal Party MPPs Members of the House of Commons of Canada from Ontario Politicians from Greater Sudbury {{Liberal-Ontario-MPP-stub