Marcel Cadieux

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Marcel Cadieux, C.C. (June 17, 1915 - March 19, 1981) was a Canadian civil servant and diplomat.

Born in Montréal, Quebec, he studied at the Collège André Grasset, obtained a Master's degree in law from the Université de Montréal and studied constitutional law at McGill University in Montréal. He joined the Department of External Affairs in 1941, served as senior adviser to Canadian members of the International Control Commission in Vietnam in 1954, and became the legal advisor to the Department of External Affairs in 1956. A professor of international law at the University of Ottawa, he was the first Canadian to sit on the United Nations International Law Commission. From 1964 to 1970 he was Under-Secretary of State for External Affairs. He was Canada's first francophone Ambassador to the United States from 1970 to 1975, and Head of the Canadian Mission to the European Communities from 1975. He was appointed to advise the RCMP in 1978. He wrote several books on Canadian diplomacy.

In 1969 he was made a Companion of the Order of Canada.

He married Anita Comtois and they had two sons.

Preceded by: Edgar Ritchie

Canadian Ambassador to the United States of America 1970–1975

Succeeded by: Jake Warren