Jean-Noël Tremblay
Jean-Noël Tremblay | |
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Member of the Canadian Parliament for Roberval | |
In office 1958–1962 | |
Preceded by | Georges Villeneuve |
Succeeded by | Charles-Arthur Gauthier |
Member of the National Assembly of Quebec for Chicoutimi | |
In office 1966–1973 | |
Preceded by | Antonio Talbot |
Succeeded by | Marc-André Bédard |
Personal details | |
Born | Union Nationale | 7 June 1926
Cabinet | Provincial: 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
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
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
- ^ Winnipeg Free Press, 5 February 1969, p. 1.