Jean-Noël Tremblay

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Jean-Noël Tremblay
Member of the
Canadian Parliament
for Roberval
In office
1958–1962
Preceded byGeorges Villeneuve
Succeeded byCharles-Arthur Gauthier
Member of the National Assembly of Quebec for Chicoutimi
In office
1966–1973
Preceded byAntonio Talbot
Succeeded byMarc-André Bédard
Personal details
Born(1926-06-07)7 June 1926
Union Nationale
CabinetProvincial: Minister of Cultural Affairs (1966-1970)

Jean-Noël Tremblay, CM (7 June 1926 – 23 January 2020) was a Canadian politician, who made career at both the federal and the provincial levels.

Member of Parliament

Tremblay was elected to the House of Commons of Canada in the 1958 election representing the Quebec riding of Roberval and was a member of the Progressive Conservative Party. He lost re-election in 1962, when for the first time the Social Credit Party made a significant breakthrough in Quebec.

Provincial politics

He won a seat to the

Quebec nationalist.[1]

Tremblay supported Jean-Guy Cardinal over Jean-Jacques Bertrand during the party's leadership convention, held on June 21, 1969.

He was re-elected to the legislature in 1970, but was defeated in 1973.

Personal life

Tremblay was born in June 1926 in

Quebec, Quebec
.

Honors

In 1990, he was made a Member of the Order of Canada.

External links

  • Jean-Noël Tremblay – Parliament of Canada biography
  • "Biography". Dictionnaire des parlementaires du Québec de 1792 à nos jours (in French). National Assembly of Quebec.

References

  1. ^ Winnipeg Free Press, 5 February 1969, p. 1.