Jean-Baptiste Morin was a Canadian

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 politician.

Born in Sainte-Hénédine

Sainte-Hénédine, Quebec

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, Dorchester County, Lower Canada

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, Morin moved to the United States

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 in 1856 and lived there for thirty-two years. Returning to Quebec, he was Warden of the County of Dorchester and President of the School Commissioners in Sainte-Hénédine. He was a J.P.

Justice of the Peace

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 and was elected Mayor of Sainte-Hénédine in 1889. He was first elected to the Canadian House of Commons

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 for the electoral district of Dorchester

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 in the general elections of 1896

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. A Conservative

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, he was re-elected in 1900

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 and 1904

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