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Martin Brian Mulroney was a Canadian lawyer, businessman, and politician who served as the 18th prime minister of Canada from 1984 to 1993.
Born on March 20, 1939, in the remote paper-mill town of Baie-Comeau, Quebec, he was the son of Irish-Canadian Catholic parents, Benedict Martin Mulroney, an electrician at the local mill, and Mary Irene Mulroney (née O’Shea).
He grew up fluently bilingual in English and French in a working-class household.