Guillaume-Alphonse Nantel
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Guillaume-Alphonse Nantel (4 November 1852 – 3 June 1909) was a Canadian lawyer, journalist, author, newspaper owner, and politician.
In the 1882 federal election, he was elected to the Canadian House of Commons as a Conservative candidate in the Quebec riding of Terrebonne. He resigned less than two months later to allow Joseph-Adolphe Chapleau, the Secretary of State of Canada, to run for office.
In a August 1882 by-election, he was acclaimed to the Quebec National Assembly in the riding of Terrebonne. He was re-elected in 1886 and 1890. He was acclaimed again in 1892 and re-elected in 1897. He was the commissioner of public works in the cabinets of Charles-Eugène Boucher de Boucherville and Louis-Olivier Taillon. He was also the commissioner of crown lands in the cabinet of Edmund James Flynn. He was defeated in the 1900 elections.
His brother, Wilfrid Bruno Nantel, was also a politician.
[edit] External links
- Synopsis of federal political experience from the Library of Parliament
- Biography at the Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online
- Guillaume-Alphonse Nantel at Assemblée nationale du Québec (French)
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