Eugène Marquis (11 September 1901 – 15 November 1994) was a

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member of the

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. He was born in

Saint-Alexandre-de-Kamouraska, Quebec Saint-Alexandre-de-Kamouraska is a municipality in the Canadian province of Quebec, in the Kamouraska Regional County Municipality. Before July 5, 1997, it was known simply as Saint-Alexandre. History The parish of Saint-Alexandre was founded ...

and became a crown attorney, judge and lawyer by career. Marquis was educated at

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and at the Quebec Seminary. From February 1931 to July 1936, he was

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for the District of Quebec, and served in that capacity again from November 1939 to September 1944. He was first elected to Parliament at the Kamouraska riding in the

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then re-elected in

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. On 24 August 1949, he resigned from the House of Commons and accepted an appointment as a judge of the

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* 1901 births 1994 deaths Liberal Party of Canada MPs Members of the House of Commons of Canada from Quebec Judges in Quebec Lawyers in Quebec 20th-century Canadian lawyers {{Liberal-Quebec-MP-stub