Leigh Bertrand Larocque (March 6, 1934 – March 26, 2017) was a Republican politician who served in the

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. He represented the Caledonia-1 Representative District from 1992 to 1996 and again from 1998 to 2015.

Life

Early life and career

Larocque was born in

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, the son of dairy farmer Donald O. Larocque, Sr. (1905–1996) and Beatrice Labor (1905–1992). Larocque received his Certificate from Saint Johnsbury Trade School in

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in 1952. From 1956 to 1961, Larocque worked on the

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, Niagara Falls Power Project, and

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as a Project Inspector for Uhl, Hall and Rich, an engineering consulting firm. After leaving the field of engineering, Larocque then became owner and operator of his own dairy farm from 1962 to 1986. After selling the family farm, he worked for Charles Fenoff Redi-Mix from 1987 to 1995 as a Concrete Mix Plant Operator, and a Concrete and Soils Technician for Ebasco Services, a construction materials testing company. Larocque was Chair of the Barnet Selectboard from 1988 to 2002.

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