Guillaume-Alphonse Nantel (November 4, 1852 – June 3, 1909) was a

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lawyer, journalist, author, newspaper owner, and politician. Born in Saint-Jerome, Canada East, he was elected to the

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as a

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candidate in the Quebec riding of

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in the 1882 federal election. He resigned less than two months later to allow

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, the

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, to run for office. In an August 1882

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, he was acclaimed to the Legislative Assembly of Quebec in the riding of

. He was re-elected in 1886 and

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. He was acclaimed again in 1892 and re-elected in 1897. He was the commissioner of

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in the cabinets of Charles-Eugène Boucher de Boucherville and

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. He was also the commissioner of crown lands in the cabinet of

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. He was defeated in the 1900 elections. He died in

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in 1909. His brother,

Wilfrid Bruno Nantel Wilfrid Bruno Nantel, (November 8, 1857 – May 22, 1940) was a Canadian politician. Career Born in Saint-Jérôme, Canada East, the son of Guillaume Nantel and Adélaïde Desjardins, he was a lawyer before first running unsuccessfully for ...

, was also a politician.

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