1. Richard Lehoux was born on 1956 and is a Canadian politician who served as the member of Parliament for Beauce from 2019 until 2025, as a member of the Conservative Party.
11 Facts About Richard Lehoux
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Richard Lehoux's family has been in Beauce for eight generations.
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Richard Lehoux's great-grandfather served as mayor of Saint-Elzear from 1898 to 1902, and he is a fourth-generation dairy farmer.
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Richard Lehoux was the mayor of Saint-Elzear, Quebec in the Chaudiere-Appalaches region from 1998 to 2017, and the reeve of Nouvelle-Beauce RCM from 2000 to 2017.
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Richard Lehoux was a member of the Federation quebecoise des municipalites from 2001 to 2017.
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Richard Lehoux was the vice president from 2010 to 2014 and briefly served as interim president in 2012.
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Richard Lehoux was elected as the FQM's president in 2014 and held the role until 2017.
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Richard Lehoux would serve as MMQ president from 2017 to 2018.
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Richard Lehoux retired from municipal politics in 2017 to return to his dairy farm, but returned to politics in November 2018 as the Conservative candidate for the 2019 Canadian federal election in the Beauce riding, with the support of party leader Andrew Scheer.
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Richard Lehoux was elected to Parliament following the 2019 election, unseating incumbent Maxime Bernier, who formerly held the seat for the Conservatives, but resigned to form the libertarian-right People's Party of Canada.
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On March 21,2025, Richard Lehoux announced that he would not run for re-election in the 2025 Canadian federal election.