Joan Dougherty (2 March 1927 – 18 December 2020) was a Canadian politician in the province of

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Biography

Born in

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, Quebec, to Edward Mason, a physician, and Loretta O'Reilly, Dougherty studied at

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, a private girls' school, and received a Bachelor of Science degree in 1947 and a Masters in

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in 1950 from

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. She did post-graduate studies at the

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in biophysics.Joan Dougherty, former MNA and advocate for public education, dies at 93
/ref> Dougherty represented

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in the

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from 1981 to 1987. She died from

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during the

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References

1927 births Anglophone Quebec people 2020 deaths McGill University Faculty of Science alumni Politicians from Montreal Quebec Liberal Party MNAs Women MNAs in Quebec Deaths from the COVID-19 pandemic in Canada {{Liberal-Quebec-MNA-stub