predecessor successor birth_place party profession birth_date order term_start article_title term_end name
roger ferland jacques olivier jacques olivier caroline st-hilaire longueuil , quebec parti municipal de longueuil entrepreneur 13 january 1942 28th mayor of longueuil 1994 2005 claude gladu
 2001 2009 claude gladu
claude gladu

claude gladu -lrb- born january 13 , 1942 -rrb- is the former mayor of the city of longueuil , quebec .
he served as mayor from 1994 to 2001 and from 2005 to 2009 .
gladu started his career as a firefighter for ville jacques-cartier in the 1960s .
he first served as a city councillor in 1982 , and during the 1980s was the president of the société de transport de la rive-sud de montréal -lrb- now the réseau de transport de longueuil -rrb- .
gladu served as the mayor of longueuil from 1994 to 2001 .
the pre-2001 city of longueuil merged with the surrounding municipalities of boucherville , brossard , greenfield park , lemoyne , saint-bruno-de-montarville , saint-hubert and saint-lambert on january 1 , 2002 .
jacques olivier was elected mayor of the merged municipality .
in 2005 , boucherville , brossard , saint-bruno-de-montarville and saint-lambert voted to demerge from longueuil .
the demerger took effect on january 1 , 2006 .
following the demerger referendums , gladu , leader of the parti municipal de longueuil , won the municipal elections of longueuil on november 6 , 2005 .
on april 19 , 2009 , claude gladu announced that he would not seek re-election as mayor of longueuil .
he and his party instead threw their support behind former longueuil city council member jacques goyette .
goyette lost the election to caroline st-hilaire .
