Kenneth Hubert "Ken" Fogarty, (1923 – 14 January 1989) was Mayor of Ottawa,

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, Canada, from 1970 to 1972 and afterwards an Ontario district court judge until his death. Fogarty was born in

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, where he earned

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and

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degrees at the University of Ottawa. He became a lawyer in 1950 after graduating from

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in 1948. He returned to the University of Ottawa to study for his

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degree in French which he attained in 1969. He ran for the

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in the riding of

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in the 1951 and 1955 provincial elections, losing both times. He represented

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from 1961 to 1965. He then served on the

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from 1965 to 1970. He died aged 65 in an Ottawa hospital due to cardiac failure.

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