Normand Lapointe (born 2 January 1939) is a

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businessman and politician. Lapointe was a

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member of the

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. He was an insurance agent by career. Born in

Saint-Victor, Quebec Saint-Victor is a municipality in the Beauce-Centre Regional County Municipality in the centre of the Beauce area, part of the Chaudière-Appalaches administrative region in Quebec, Canada. Saint-Victor's population is 2,313. History The area ...

, Lapointe won Quebec's Beauce electoral district in the 1980 federal election and served in the

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. He left national politics after his defeat in the 1984 election by Gilles Bernier of the Progressive Conservative party.

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* 1939 births Living people Members of the House of Commons of Canada from Quebec Liberal Party of Canada MPs People from Beauce, Quebec {{Liberal-Quebec-MP-stub