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Edmond Proulx

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Preceded by
  
Isidore Proulx

Role
  
Lawyer

Party
  
Liberal Party of Canada

Preceded by
  
Gustave Evanturel

Died
  
December 26, 1956

Succeeded by
  
Joseph Binette

Political party
  
Liberal

Parents
  
Isidore Proulx

Resigned
  
1921

Name
  
Edmond Proulx

Education
  
College Bourget


Edmond Proulx

Born
  
May 21, 1875 St-Hermas, Quebec (
1875-05-21
)

Relations
  
Isidore Proulx, father Marcel Proulx, grandson

Edmond Proulx (May 21, 1875 – December 26, 1956) was an Ontario lawyer and political figure. He represented Prescott in the Canadian House of Commons as a Liberal member from 1904 to 1921 and in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario as an Independent Liberal from 1923 to 1929.

He was born in Saint-Hermas, Quebec in 1875, the son of Isidore Proulx and Philomène Lalande, and grew up in Plantagenet, Ontario. Proulx studied at the Collège Bourget in Rigaud, Quebec, the University of Ottawa, St. Michael's College, Toronto and Osgoode Hall. He articled in Ottawa and Toronto, was called to the bar and set up practice in L'Orignal in 1904. He was elected to the House of Commons later that year in a by-election held after the death of his father. In 1907, he married Renée Audette. Proulx ran unsuccessfully for the Prescott seat as an Independent Liberal in 1921 but was elected to the provincial assembly two years later, defeating Gustave Évanturel, the official Liberal candidate. In 1929, he was named a judge for Sudbury district.

Proulx retired from the bench in 1950. He died in Sudbury at the age of 81.

References

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