Lucien Maynard
{{Short description|Canadian lawyer and politician}}
{{Use Canadian English|date=January 2023}}
{{Infobox officeholder
| image =Lucien Maynard - 1.png
| imagesize = |
| name = Joseph Lucien Paul Maynard
| caption =
| birth_date = {{birth date|1908|2|17}}
| death_date = {{death date and age|1996|2|7|1908|2|17}}
| birth_place = Montreal, Quebec, Canada
| death_place=Edmonton, Alberta
| residence =
| office = Member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta
| constituency = Beaver River
| term_start = August 22, 1935
| term_end = August 17, 1948
| predecessor = Henry Dakin
| successor = Harry Lobay
| constituency1 = St. Albert
| term_start1 = August 17, 1948
| term_end1 = June 29, 1955
| predecessor1 = Charles Holder
| successor1 = Arthur Soetaert
| office2 = Minister without Portfolio
| term_start2 = May 12, 1936
| term_end2 = January 20, 1937
| office3 = Minister of Municipal Affairs
| term_start3 = January 20, 1937
| term_end3 = June 1, 1943
| predecessor3 = Charles Cockroft
| successor3 = Clarence Gerhart
| office4 = Attorney General
| term_start4 = June 1, 1943
| term_end4 = August 2, 1955
| predecessor4 = John Hugill
| successor4 = Ernest Manning
| party = Social Credit
| religion =
| spouse =
| occupation = lawyer, politician
}}
Joseph Lucien Paul Maynard (February 17, 1908 – February 7, 1996){{Cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_RqEg6BLilUC&dq=%22Lucien+Maynard%22+AND+%22alberta%22&pg=PA201 |title = Social Discredit: Anti-Semitism, Social Credit, and the Jewish Response|isbn = 9780773520103|last1 = Stingel|first1 = Janine|date = 2000-02-24}} was a lawyer and a provincial politician from Alberta, Canada. He served in the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1935 to 1955 as a member of the Social Credit Party.
Maynard served as a cabinet minister under Premiers William Aberhart and Ernest Manning in various portfolios from 1936 to 1955.
Political career
Maynard first ran for a seat in the Alberta Legislature in the 1935 general election. He contested the Beaver River electoral district under the Social Credit banner and defeated three other candidates, including incumbent Henry Dakin and former MLA John Delisle.{{cite web | url=http://www.abheritage.ca/abpolitics/administration/maps_choice.php?Year=1935&Constit=Beaver%20River | title=Beaver River Official Results 1935 Alberta general election | publisher=Alberta Heritage Community Foundation | access-date=March 1, 2010 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110612045522/http://www.abheritage.ca/abpolitics/administration/maps_choice.php?Year=1935&Constit=Beaver | archive-date=June 12, 2011 | url-status=dead }} Premier William Aberhart appointed him to the Executive Council of Alberta as a Minister without portfolio on May 12, 1936. Less than a year later, on January 20, 1937, Aberhart promoted Maynard to Minister of Municipal Affairs.
On June 1, 1943, Ernest Manning, who had recently succeeded Aberhart as premier, promoted Maynard to Attorney General. He remained in that portfolio until his defeat in his home riding of St. Albert in the 1955 general election at the hands of Liberal candidate Arthur Soetaert. Maynard's defeat left the Social Credit government without any lawyers in caucus; Premier Ernest Manning then took the post of Attorney General himself.
In 1962 Maynard attempted a return to politics by running in the electoral district of Edmonton East for the federal Social Credit party in that year's federal election. He finished a distant second to Progressive Conservative incumbent William Skoreyko.{{cite web|title=Edmonton East election results| url=http://www2.parl.gc.ca/Sites/LOP/HFER/hfer.asp?Language=E&Search=Cresdetail&Election=1159|publisher=Parliament of Canada|date=June 18, 1962|access-date=March 19, 2010}} Maynard ran against Skoreyko again in the 1963 election, but fared even more poorly, finishing a distant third.{{cite web|title=Edmonton East election results| url=http://www2.parl.gc.ca/Sites/LOP/HFER/hfer.asp?Language=E&Search=Cresdetail&Election=1251|publisher=Parliament of Canada|date=April 8, 1963|access-date=March 19, 2010}}
Many years later, in 1985, Maynard ran as an independent in a provincial by-election in the Edmonton-Whitemud electoral district. He finished in fifth place out of six candidates, losing to Premier Don Getty.{{cite web|url=http://www.elections.ab.ca/Public%20Website/742.htm#dec1985 |title=Edmonton-Whitemud Official By-election Results |date=December 11, 1985 |publisher=Elections Alberta |access-date=March 19, 2010 |url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090607094042/http://www.elections.ab.ca/Public%20Website/742.htm |archive-date=June 7, 2009 }}
He made one last bid for office in the 1988 federal election as a candidate of the Confederation of Regions Party in Edmonton Northwest. He finished sixth out of seven candidates, losing to incumbent Murray Dorin.{{cite web|title=Edmonton Northwest election results| url=http://www2.parl.gc.ca/Sites/LOP/HFER/hfer.asp?Language=E&Search=Cresdetail&Election=9616|publisher=Parliament of Canada|date=November 21, 1988|access-date=March 19, 2010}}
References
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External links
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20070930024650/http://www.assembly.ab.ca/legislaturecentennial/pdf/membersBooklet.pdf Legislative Assembly of Alberta Members Listing]
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Category:Alberta Social Credit Party MLAs
Category:Candidates in the 1962 Canadian federal election
Category:Candidates in the 1963 Canadian federal election
Category:Confederation of Regions Party of Canada candidates in the 1988 Canadian federal election
Category:Members of the Executive Council of Alberta
Category:Politicians from Montreal
Category:20th-century members of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta