Joseph-Hermas Leclerc (12 July 1877 – 4 October 1945) was a

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member of the

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. He was born in

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in Drummond County and became an industrialist by career. Leclerc served as an alderman of

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for 6 years, then was the community's mayor from 1933 to 1939. He was first elected to Parliament at the Shefford riding in the 1935 general election and re-elected there in

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. After his second term in the House of Commons, Leclerc did not seek further re-election in the 1945 federal election.

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