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Place of Birth: Montreal, Quebec, Canada
About Claude Gladu
- Claude Gladu (born January 13, 1942) is the former mayor of the city of Longueuil, Quebec.
- He served as mayor from 1994 to 2001 and from 2005 to 2009. Gladu started his career as a firefighter for Ville Jacques-Cartier in the 1960s. He first served as a city councillor in 1982, and during the 1980s was the president of the Société de transport de la Rive-Sud de Montréal (now the Réseau de transport de Longueuil). Gladu served as the mayor of Longueuil from 1994 to 2001.
- The pre-2001 city of Longueuil merged with the surrounding municipalities of Boucherville, Brossard, Greenfield Park, LeMoyne, Saint-Bruno-de-Montarville, Saint-Hubert and Saint-Lambert on January 1, 2002.
- Jacques Olivier was elected mayor of the merged municipality. In 2005, Boucherville, Brossard, Saint-Bruno-de-Montarville and Saint-Lambert voted to demerge from Longueuil.
- The demerger took effect on January 1, 2006.
- Following the demerger referendums, Gladu, leader of the Parti Municipal de Longueuil, won the municipal elections of Longueuil on November 6, 2005.
- On April 19, 2009, Claude Gladu announced that he would not seek re-election as mayor of Longueuil.
- He and his party instead threw their support behind former Longueuil City Council member Jacques Goyette.
- Goyette lost the election to Caroline St-Hilaire.
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