Gabriel Roberge was a Liberal party

Liberal Party of Canada

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 member of the Canadian House of Commons

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. He was a lawyer by career.

Roberge was born in Saint-Ferdinand d'Halifax, Quebec

Saint-Ferdinand, Quebec

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. He graduated twice from Université Laval

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, first in 1938 with a Bachelor of Arts then in 1941 with a Bachelor of Law. He served in the military with Le Régiment de la Chaudière

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 reaching the rank of Second Lieutenant in 1941 and left the forces in 1946 as a Captain.

He was first elected at the Mégantic

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 riding in the 1958 general election

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. After serving one term, the 24th Parliament

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, he was defeated in the 1962 election

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 by Raymond Langlois

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 of the Social Credit Party

Social Credit Party of Canada

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. He became a Quebec Superior Court

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 judge in October 1963.

Roberge also helped establish the Kiwanis

Kiwanis

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 club in Thetford Mines and was a knight of the Order of Saint Lazarus

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 since 1974. He died on 5 July 2006 in Quebec City

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