Maurice Gingues (8 November 1903 – 27 August 1960) was a

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member of the

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. He was born in

Sherbrooke Sherbrooke ( ; ) is a city in southern Quebec, Canada. It is at the confluence of the Saint-François and Magog rivers in the heart of the Estrie administrative region. Sherbrooke is also the name of a territory equivalent to a regional count ...

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and became a knitter, a merchant and a real estate businessman. He was first elected at the

riding in the 1940 general election then re-elected for successive terms in

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1949 Events January * January 1 – A United Nations-sponsored ceasefire brings an end to the Indo-Pakistani War of 1947. The war results in a stalemate and the division of Kashmir, which still continues as of 2022. * January 2 – Luis ...

1953 Events January * January 6 – The Asian Socialist Conference opens in Rangoon, Burma. * January 12 – Estonian émigrés found a Estonian government-in-exile, government-in-exile in Oslo. * January 14 ** Marshal Josip Broz Tito i ...

and

1957 1957 ( MCMLVII) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1957th year of the Common Era (CE) and ''Anno Domini'' (AD) designations, the 957th year of the 2nd millennium, the 57th year of the 20th century, and the 8th y ...

. In the 1958 election he was defeated at Sherbrooke by

Maurice Allard Maurice Allard (January 2, 1922 – September 14, 1988) was a Canadian politician, as well as a law professor and a lawyer. He was elected in 1958 as a member of the Progressive Conservative Party representing the riding of Sherbrooke. He ran a ...

of the Progressive Conservative party. Gingues briefly left federal politics in 1944 to campaign as a Liberal in that year's Quebec provincial election at the

riding. Gingues lost to Union Nationale candidate

John Samuel Bourque John Samuel Bourque (September 8, 1894 – March 5, 1974) was a Quebec politician, Cabinet Minister, military member and businessman. He was the Member of Legislative Assembly of Quebec for the riding of Sherbrooke for 25 years. Born in Sherbr ...

and returned to the House of Commons following the 1945 election.

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* 1903 births 1960 deaths Businesspeople from Sherbrooke Canadian merchants Liberal Party of Canada MPs Members of the House of Commons of Canada from Quebec Politicians from Sherbrooke {{Liberal-Quebec-MP-stub