Émery Fleury

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Émery Fleury was a Canadian politician and a three-term Member of the Legislative Assembly of Quebec. ^[1]

Contents 1 Background 2 Political career 3 Retirement 4 Footnotes

[edit] Background

He was born on February 10, 1901 in Saint-Léonard-d'Aston, Centre-du-Québec. He became a dairy farmer.

[edit] Political career

Fleury ran as a Conservative candidate in the district of Nicolet in the 1935 election and lost. He won a seat to the Legislative Assembly of Quebec as a Union Nationale candidate in the 1936 election against Liberal candidate Alexandre Gaudet. Fleury was defeated by Liberal candidate Henri-Napoléon Biron in the 1939 election, but won back his seat in the 1944 election and was re-elected in the 1948 election. He did not run for re-election in the 1952 election.

[edit] Retirement

From 1963 to 1970, Fleury was a municipal public servant in Trois-Rivières. He died on October 16, 1975.

[edit] Footnotes

National Assembly of Quebec
Preceded by Alexandre Gaudet (Liberal)	MLA for Nicolet 1936–1939	Succeeded by Henri-Napoléon Biron (Liberal)
Preceded by Henri-Napoléon Biron (Liberal)	MLA for Nicolet 1944–1952	Succeeded by Camille Roy (Union Nationale)