Gérard Lamy | |
Birth Date: | 2 May 1919 |
Birth Place: | Grand-Mère, Quebec, Canada |
Death Place: | Trois-Rivières, Quebec, Canada |
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 |
Spouse: | Simone Bellemare (m. 25 Mar 1940 – 16 Jan 2009; her death)[1] [2] |
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.[3]
He was born on May 2, 1919, in Grand-Mère, Quebec, and was a contractor before running for office.
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.
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.