Joseph Ernest Oscar Gladu (October 25, 1870 – December 25, 1920) was a Canadian

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 politician.

Born in Saint-François-du-Lac

Saint-François-du-Lac, Quebec

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, Yamaska County, Quebec

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, the son of Victor Gladu

Victor Gladu

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 and Mary Gill, Gladu was educated at St. Mary's Jesuit College in Montreal

Montreal

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. A notary, he was first elected to the Canadian House of Commons

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 for the electoral district of Yamaska

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 in the general elections of 1904

Canadian federal election, 1904

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. A Liberal

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, he was re-elected in 1908

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 and was defeated in 1911

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. He was re-elected in 1917

Canadian federal election, 1917

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. He died in office in 1920.