[1] Cliche served as a school board member in 1919 and as Mayor of Vallée-Jonction, Quebec from 1931 to 1932.
[1] He ran as an Action libérale nationale candidate in the district of Beauce in the 1935 provincial election and won.
Cliche refused to join Maurice Duplessis's Union Nationale.
Instead, he ran as an Independent Liberal in the 1936 election and lost to Raoul Poulin.
He also ran as an Action libérale nationale candidate and lost a by-election that was called in 1937 as a result of Poulin's switch to federal politics.