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{{Short description|Canadian politician}}
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| name = Christian Henry Pozer
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| office = [[Senate of Canada|Senator]] for [[List of Quebec senators#Lauzon|Lauzon, Quebec]]
| appointed = [[Alexander Mackenzie (politician)|Alexander Mackenzie]]
| predecessor = [[Alexandre-René Chaussegros de Léry]]
| successor = [[Joseph Bolduc]]
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'''Christian Henry Pozer''' (December 26, 1835 – July 18, 1884) was a [[CanadaCanadians|Canadian]] lawyer and politician.
 
Born in St-Georges d'Aubert Gallion (now [[Saint-Georges, Quebec|StSaint-Georges-de-Beauce]]), [[Beauce (Quebec)|Beauce]], [[Lower Canada]] (now [[Quebec]]), the son of William Pozer and Ann Milbourne, he was called to the Lower Canada bar in 1860.
 
In [[List of elections in the Province of Canada|1863]], he ran as a [[Liberal Party of Quebec|Liberal]] for the [[NationalLegislative Assembly of Quebecthe Province of Canada]] in the riding of [[Beauce (provincial electoral district)|Beauce]] and was defeated. He was elected in [[1867 Quebec general election, 1867|1867]] and re-elected in [[1871 Quebec general election, 1871|1871]]. He resigned in 1874.
 
At the same time, he was elected to the [[Canadian House of Commons of Canada]] for the riding of Beauce in [[1867 Canadian federal election, 1867|1867]]. A [[Liberal Party of Canada|Liberal]] he was re-elected in [[1872 Canadian federal election, 1872|1872]] and [[1874 Canadian federal election, 1874|1874]].
 
He resigned from the House of Commons when he was appointed a [[Senate of Canada|Senator]] in 1876 representing the senatorial division of Lauzon, Quebec. He died in office in 1884 and was buried in the Pozer CemetereyCemetery in [[Saint-Georges, Quebec|St-Georges-de-Beauce]].<ref>Garant, André. ''À L'OMBRE DU CLOCHER'', La Fabrique St-Georges-de-Beauce, 1985, {{ISBN |2-9800513-0-6}}</ref>
 
==References==
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==External links==
* {{QuebecMNAbioQuebec MNA biography|pozer-christian-henry-4979}}
* {{Canadian Parliament links|ID=3634}}
* {{MPLinksCA|parliament=|parlinfo=08f7401c-83f1-4f24-97d5-36a5b429c7dc|openparl=|vote=}}
* {{DictCanbio|ID=5775}}
 
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| NAME =Pozer, Christian
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| SHORT DESCRIPTION = Canadian politician
| DATE OF BIRTH =December 26, 1835
| PLACE OF BIRTH =manor-house in the seigneury of Aubert-Gallion in Beauce, Lower Canada
| DATE OF DEATH =July 18, 1884
| PLACE OF DEATH =Saint-Georges, Quebec
}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Pozer, Christian}}
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[[fr:Christian Henry Pozer]]