Lucien Lamoureux

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Stormont
In office June 18, 1962 – June 25, 1968
Preceded by	Grant Campbell
Succeeded by	riding dissolved
Personal details
Born	(1920-08-03)August 3, 1920 Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Died	July 16, 1998(1998-07-16) (aged 77)
Political party	Liberal (1962-1968; 1974-1998) Independent (1968-1974)
Occupation	Lawyer

Lucien Lamoureux

from 1966 to 1974. He is the second longest-serving occupant of that office.

After graduating with a law degree from

.

Lamoureux was first elected to the

Lester Pearson

nominated him to the position of Speaker of the House of Commons.

Lamoureux served as speaker during two minority governments, 1965–1968 and 1972–1974, experiences that required him to maintain authority and neutrality in a situation where no party had control of the House.

In the

, however, declined to withdraw their candidate. Lamoureux was re-elected and continued to serve as Speaker.

In the 1972 election, Lamoureux again ran as an Independent, this time both the Tories and the NDP ran candidates against him. Lamoureux won re-election by a margin of 5,000 votes. Without an all-party agreement to not run against sitting Speakers in general elections, however, Lamoureux's wish for Canada to follow the British precedent was doomed, and future Speakers would not repeat his attempt to run as an Independent. As the election produced a minority government for the Liberals who had only two more seats than the Conservatives, the closeness of it was perhaps the reason why the opposition parties would choose not to follow such a precedent. In April 1974, Lamoureux became the longest serving Speaker in the history of the Canadian House of Commons, surpassing the record set by

following the election. Lamoureux died in 1998.

Lamoureux served as Honorary Lieutenant Colonel of the Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry Highlanders from 1974 to 1980.

In 1998, he was made an Officer of the Order of Canada.

On October 12, 2009, Peter Milliken surpassed Lamoureux's record to become the longest-serving occupant of the Speaker's Chair.

v t e 1962 Canadian federal election: Stormont
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	Lucien Lamoureux	11,363
	Progressive Conservative	Grant Campbell	11,293
	Social Credit	Mel Rowat	1,256
	New Democratic	Marjorie Ball	946

Note:
* Due to the death of the Liberal candidate for the riding of Stormont, the general election scheduled for June 18, 1962, in this riding was postponed until July 16, 1962.

v t e 1963 Canadian federal election: Stormont
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	Lucien Lamoureux	13,285
	Progressive Conservative	John Alguire	9,728
	Social Credit	Ludger Boileau	851
	New Democratic	Bill Kilger	801

v t e 1965 Canadian federal election: Stormont
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	Lucien Lamoureux	13,530
	Progressive Conservative	Ken Bergeron	7,458
	New Democratic	John B. Trew	3,201

External links

• Lucien Lamoureux – Parliament of Canada biography
• Speakers of the Canadian House of Commons biography

Parliament of Canada
Preceded by Grant Campbell	Stormont 1962–1968	Succeeded by Electoral district was abolished
Preceded by None	Stormont—Dundas 1968–1974	Succeeded by Ed Lumley
Political offices
Preceded by Gordon Chown	Deputy Speaker and Chairman of Committees of the Whole of the House of Commons 1963-05-16–1965-09-08	Succeeded by Herman Maxwell Batten
Diplomatic posts
Preceded by Jean-Yves Grenon	Canadian Ambassador to Belgium 1974–1980	Succeeded by d'Iberville Fortier
Preceded by Jules Léger	Canadian Ambassador to Luxembourg 1974–1980	Succeeded by d'Iberville Fortier
Preceded by Daniel Albert Bernard Molgat	Canadian Ambassador to Portugal 1980–1984	Succeeded by Cyril Lloyd Francis

References