Background
Born in Yamachiche, Lower Canada, the son of Joseph Loranger and Marie-Louise Dugal, Loranger was educated in Montreal at the Petit Séminaire de Montréal and studied law at the Collège Sainte-Marie.
Born in Yamachiche, Lower Canada, the son of Joseph Loranger and Marie-Louise Dugal, Loranger was educated in Montreal at the Petit Séminaire de Montréal and studied law at the Collège Sainte-Marie.
He was made a Queen"s Counsel in 1881. He was first elected to the Legislative Assembly of Quebec for the electoral district of Laval in the 1875 election. A Conservative, he was re-elected in 1881.
From 1879 to 1882, he was the attorney general in the cabinet of Premier Joseph-Adolphe Chapleau.
He was president of the Saint-Jean-Baptiste Society of Montreal from 1895 to 1899. In 1882, he was appointed a judge in the Superior Court of Quebec for the district of Montreal.
He retired in 1909.
He was also a member of the Montreal City Council for the ward of Saint-Louis from 1871 to 1877.