Louis-Onésime Loranger (April 7, 1837 – August 18, 1917) was a

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lawyer, politician, and judge. Born in Yamachiche,

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, the son of Joseph Loranger and Marie-Louise Dugal, Loranger was educated in

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at the Petit Séminaire de Montréal and studied law at the Collège Sainte-Marie. He was called to the Bar of the

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in 1858 and practiced law with his brothers, Thomas-Jean-Jacques and Jean-Marie. He was made a

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in 1881. He was first elected to the

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for the electoral district of Laval in the 1875 election. A

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, he was re-elected in 1881. From 1879 to 1882, he was the attorney general in the cabinet of

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. He was also a member of the Montreal City Council for the ward of Saint-Louis from 1871 to 1877. He was president of the Saint-Jean-Baptiste Society of Montreal from 1895 to 1899. In 1882, he was appointed a judge in the Superior Court of Quebec for the district of Montreal. He retired in 1909.

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