Gérard Chapdelaine (31 July 1935 7 August 1994) was a Social Credit party member of the

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. He was a lawyer by career. He was first elected at the

Sherbrooke Sherbrooke ( , ) is a city in southern Quebec, Canada. It is at the confluence of the Saint-François River, Saint-François and Magog River, Magog rivers in the heart of the Estrie administrative region. Sherbrooke is also the name of a territ ...

riding in the 1962 general election and re-elected in

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. In the 1965 election, after being embroiled in the 1963 Social Credit party split, Chapdelaine campaigned as an

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at Sherbrooke, but was defeated by independent Progressive Conservative candidate Maurice Allard.

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* 1935 births Members of the House of Commons of Canada from Quebec Independent MPs in the Canadian House of Commons Social Credit Party of Canada MPs 20th-century Canadian lawyers 1994 deaths 20th-century members of the House of Commons of Canada {{Quebec-MP-stub