Ovila Bergeron was a politician and business person in
Quebec
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Canada
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Background
He was born on February 17, 1903, in
Warwick, Quebec
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Political career
Lemieux ran as a
Bloc Populaire Canadien candidate in the provincial district of
Stanstead in the
1944 election and won against incumbent
Raymond-François Frégeau. He served as his party
House Whip from 1945 to 1948. He did not run for re-election in the
1948 election. He was mayor of
Magog between 1952 and 1956 and, in interim, to June 22, 1966, at November 6, 1967.
Death
He died on December 3, 1985.
Footnotes
1903 births
1985 deaths
Bloc populaire MNAs
People from Centre-du-Québec
People from Magog, Quebec
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