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{{Short description|Canadian politician}}
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{{Infobox Politician
| name                = Edmond Proulx
| image               = Edmond Proulx.jpg
| imagesize           = 180px
| office1             = [[Member of Provincial Parliament (Ontario)|Ontario MPP]]
| term_start1         = 1923
| term_end1           = 1929
| predecessor1        = [[Gustave Évanturel]]
| successor1          = [[Joseph St. Denis]]
| constituency1       = [[Prescott (provincial electoral district)|Prescott]]
| riding2             = [[Prescott (federal electoral district)|Prescott]]
| parliament2         = Canadian
| predecessor2        = [[Isidore Proulx]]
| successor2          = [[Joseph Binette]]
| term_start2         = 1904
| term_end2           = 1921
| party               = [[Ontario Liberal Party|Liberal]]
| birth_date          = {{birth date|1875|5|21}}
| birth_place         = [[Saint-Hermas]], [[Quebec]], Canada
| death_date          = {{death date and age|1956|12|26|1875|5|21}}
| death_place         = [[Greater Sudbury|Sudbury]], [[Ontario]], Canada
| occupation          = Lawyer
| relations           = 
| spouse              = {{marriage |Renée Audette|1907}}
| children            = 
| education           = [[St Michael's College, Toronto]]
}}
'''Edmond Proulx''' (May 21, 1875 &ndash; December 26, 1956) was an [[Ontario]] lawyer and political figure. He represented [[Prescott (federal electoral district)|Prescott]] in the [[House of Commons of Canada]] as a [[Liberal Party of Canada|Liberal]] member from 1904 to 1921 and in the [[Legislative Assembly of Ontario]] as an Independent Liberal from 1923 to 1929.

He was born in [[Saint-Hermas, Quebec]] in 1875, the son of [[Isidore Proulx]] and Philomène Lalande,<ref name="johnson">{{cite book |title=The Canadian Directory of Parliament 1867-1967 |last=Johnson |first=J.K. |year=1968 |publisher=Public Archives of Canada}}</ref> and grew up in [[Plantagenet, Ontario]]. Proulx studied at the [[Collège Bourget]] in [[Rigaud, Quebec]], the [[University of Ottawa]], [[University of St. Michael's College|St. Michael's College, Toronto]] and [[Osgoode Hall]]. He articled in [[Ottawa]] and Toronto, was called to the bar and set up practice in [[L'Orignal, Ontario|L'Orignal]] in 1904. He was elected to the House of Commons in the general election later that year after the death of his father. In 1907, he married Renée Audette. Proulx ran unsuccessfully for the Prescott seat as an Independent Liberal in 1921 but was elected to the provincial assembly two years later, defeating [[Gustave Évanturel]], the official Liberal candidate. In 1929, he was named a judge for Sudbury district.

Proulx retired from the bench in 1950. He died in [[Sudbury, Ontario|Sudbury]] at the age of 81.<ref name="johnson"/>
== Electoral record ==
{{1904 Canadian federal election/Prescott}}
{{1908 Canadian federal election/Prescott}}
{{1911 Canadian federal election/Prescott}}
{{1917 Canadian federal election/Prescott}}
{{1921 Canadian federal election/Prescott}}
==References==
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===Further reading===
* ''Histoire des Comtes Unis de Prescott et de Russell'', L. Brault (1963) {{in lang|fr}}

==External links==
*{{Canadian Parliament links|ID=15781}}
*{{Ontario MPP biography|id=edmond-proulx}}

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