Canadian politician
Edmond Anthony Lapierre (25 January 1866 – 20 June 1960) was a Liberal party member of the House of Commons of Canada . He was born in Montreal and became a sales representative.
Lapierre attended St. Mary's Academy in Montreal . He worked with Greenshields in that city for 18 years. Moving to northern Ontario, he became a member of Sudbury 's Board of Trade and was a director of the Mattawa Fur Company, and served on various associations.[1]
He was first elected to Parliament at the Nipissing riding in the 1921 general election after an unsuccessful campaign as a Laurier Liberal there in the 1917 election . Lapierre was re-elected in 1925 over Conservative candidate John Ferguson, and in 1926 over Conservative candidate and former Sudbury mayor Alfred Laberge . He left federal politics at the end of his term in the 16th Canadian Parliament and did not seek another term in the 1930 election . He was subsequently a member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario for the provincial Liberals from 1934 to 1937.
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^ Normandin, A.L. (1929). Canadian Parliamentary Guide . Ottawa: Mortimer Company.
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