Douglas Anguish

{{Short description|Canadian politician}}

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| name = Douglas Anguish

| honorific-prefix=The Honourable

|honorific-suffix=ECS

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| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1950|7|8|df=y}}

| birth_place = Meadow Lake, Saskatchewan, Canada

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| spouse = Mona Jane Karpenko (m. 6 November 1971)

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| assembly = Saskatchewan Legislative

| constituency_AM = North Battleford

| term_start = 20 October 1986

| term_end = 1 July 1996

| predecessor = Myles Morin

| successor = Jack HillsonNorth Battleford

| riding1 = The Battlefords—Meadow Lake

| parliament1 = Canadian

| term_start1 = 18 February 1980

| term_end1 = 4 September 1984

| predecessor1 = Terry Nylander

| successor1 = John Kenneth Gormley

| profession = consultant, political assistant

| party = New Democratic Party

| footnotes = {{cite book | title=Canadian Parliamentary Guide | first=Pierre G. | last=Normandin | year=1982–1983 }}

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Douglas Keith Anguish (born 8 July 1950) was a Canadian politician, consultant and political assistant. He served as a New Democratic Party member of the House of Commons of Canada.

He was elected at The Battlefords—Meadow Lake electoral district in the 1980 federal election and served in the 32nd Canadian Parliament. He left politics following the 1984 federal election in which he was defeated by John Kenneth Gormley of the Progressive Conservative party.

In the 1986 Saskatchewan provincial election, Anguish won the North Battleford riding for the provincial NDP.{{cite news | url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=myNlAAAAIBAJ&pg=1007,11048 | title=Tories hang on to power in Saskatchewan | newspaper=Edmonton Journal | date=21 October 1986 | page=A1 | first=Mark | last=Lisac | accessdate=20 February 2011}} He was re-elected there in 1991 when the NDP's Roy Romanow became premier. Anguish was re-elected in 1995, then resigned from provincial politics and his cabinet position on 1 July 1996 to seek other work.{{cite news | url=http://www.gov.sk.ca/news?newsId=7a196522-393e-4ce9-8ade-48f0ac6cf622 | title=Anguish announces his resignation as Cabinet Minister and MLA | date=12 June 1996 | publisher=Government of Saskatchewan | accessdate=20 February 2011 | url-status=dead | archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20101218093025/http://gov.sk.ca/news?newsId=7a196522-393e-4ce9-8ade-48f0ac6cf622 | archivedate=18 December 2010 | df=dmy-all }}

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