Onésiphore Ernest Talbot (August 15, 1854 – May 6, 1934) was a Canadian

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 politician.

Born in St-Arsène, Temiscouata County

Témiscouata Regional County Municipality, Quebec

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, Canada East

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, Talbot was educated at St. Michel and the Quebec Seminary. A farmer, he was a member of the Council of Agriculture in the Province of Quebec and was awarded Quebec's Ordre national du mérite agricole. He was a Lieutenant-Colonel with the 17th Regiment de Lévis and Bellechasse. He was elected to the Canadian House of Commons

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 for Bellechasse

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 in the 1896 federal election

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. A Liberal

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, he was re-elected in 1900

Canadian federal election, 1900

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, 1904

Canadian federal election, 1904

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, and 1908

Canadian federal election, 1908

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. He was defeated in 1911

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