Joseph Demers (Quebec MP), Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Canadian politician
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Place of Birth: Quebec, Canada
About Joseph Demers (Quebec MP)
- Marie Joseph Demers (May 31, 1871 – July 28, 1940) was a Canadian politician. Born in St-Georges d'Henryville, Quebec, the son of Alexis-Louis Demers, former M.L.A.
- for Iberville, and the brother of Louis Philippe Demers, who sat in the House of Commons of Canada from 1900 to 1906 until he was appointed a Puisne Judge, Superior Court.
- Demers was educated at the College of St.
- Hyacinthe and St.
- Mary's College, Montreal.
- A lawyer, he practised in DeLorimier, near Montreal.
- He was elected to the House of Commons for St.
- Johns—Iberville in the by-election called after his brother was appointed a judge.
- A Liberal, he was re-elected in 1908, 1911, 1917, and 1921.
- He resigned in 1922, when he accepted of an office of emolument under the Crown.
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