He also was recorder and then attorney for the town of Val D'Or, as well as serving on the municipal council for Val-d'Or.
In 1954, with Alcide Courcy and Jean-Pierre Bonneville, he founded Le Progrès de Rouyn-Noranda.
He served as president of the Chamber of Commerce for Val-d'Or-Bourlamaque.
He served in the Quebec cabinet as Minister of Municipal Affairs from 1961 to 1962 and Minister of Lands and Forests from 1962 to 1966.
Cliche was married twice: to Clara Morrison in 1943 and to Rose Lannan in 1971.