Career
Robert ran for election to the Canadian House of Commons in the 1965 Canadian federal election for the Liberal Party of Canada and defeated incumbent Eugène Rhéaume. He was re-elected in the 1968 Canadian federal election and served a second full term in office before retiring from federal politics in 1972. Orange died in 2007 at the age of 81, and was buried in Saint Stephen"s Cemetery in Old Chelsea, Quebec.