Gérard Lamy

{{Short description|Canadian politician (1919–2016)}}

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| name=Gérard Lamy

| image=Lamy Gérard 2016 10 26 17.jpg

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| caption=Gérard Lamy

| birth_date={{birth date|1919|5|2}}

| birth_place= Grand-Mère, Quebec, Canada

| death_date={{Death date and age|2016|10|26|1919|5|2}}

| death_place=Trois-Rivières, Quebec, Canada

| residence=

| constituency_MP=Saint-Maurice—Laflèche

| parliament=Canadian

| term_start=1962

| term_end=1963

| predecessor=Joseph-Adolphe Richard

| successor=Jean Chrétien

| profession=contractor

| party=Social Credit Party of Canada
Ralliement créditiste du Québec
Progressive Conservative Party of Canada

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| spouse=Simone Bellemare
(m. 25 Mar 1940 – 16 Jan 2009; her death){{cite book|title=The Canadian Directory of Parliament: 1867-1967|author1=Public Archives of Canada|author2=Johnson, J.K.|date=1968|publisher=Queen's Printer|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=POANAQAAIAAJ|accessdate=2015-04-13}}{{cite web|url=http://www.federationgenealogie.qc.ca/avisdeces/avis/pdf?id=439559|title=federationgenealogie|publisher=federationgenealogie.qc.ca|accessdate=2015-04-13|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304053954/http://www.federationgenealogie.qc.ca/avisdeces/avis/pdf?id=439559|archivedate=2016-03-04}}

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Gérard Lamy (May 2, 1919 – October 26, 2016) was a Canadian Social Credit Party politician. He served as a Member of the House of Commons of Canada from 1962 to 1963.{{Canadian Parliament links|ID=4493|nolist=yes}}{{Cite web|url=http://necrocanada.com/deces/lamy-gerard-1919-2016/#.WBNoD_RQW9I|title = Lamy Gérard - 1919-2016|date = 28 October 2016}}

Early life

He was born on May 2, 1919, in Grand-Mère, Quebec, and was a contractor before running for office.

Member of Parliament

Lamy successfully ran as a Social Credit Party of Canada candidate for the district of Saint-Maurice—Laflèche in the 1962 federal election, against Liberal incumbent J.A. Richard.

He was among twenty-six Social Credit members from Quebec who were elected for the first time that year.

He lost his re-election bid in the 1963 federal election, against Liberal and future prime minister, Jean Chrétien.

Attempts to make a political comeback

He also ran as a Ralliement créditiste du Québec candidate in the 1970 provincial election in the district of Saint-Maurice and as a Progressive Conservative candidate in the district of Champlain in the 1979 federal election, but was each time defeated.

Lamy did not run again after 1979.

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