Jean-Pierre Hogue (24 November 1927 – 17 June 2012) was a member of the

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from 1988 to 1993. He was born in

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. By career, he was a psychologist, professor and writer.

Political career

He was elected in the 1988 federal election at the Outremont electoral district for the Progressive Conservative Party. It was speculated that he won due to the support of ultra-conservative Hasidic Jews abandoning

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incumbent Lucie Pépin due to her support for abortion. He was the first non-Liberal Member of Parliament elected since the riding's creation in 1935. He served in the

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until the 1993 federal election, at which time he was heavily defeated by Liberal

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. Hogue only finished third, with just under nine percent of the vote. Hogue was the guest speaker at the 47th Annual Serbian Day on 28 June 1992 in Niagara Falls, Ontario.''Voice of Canadian Serbs'', page 9 – Thursday, 25 June 1992

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