John Michael William Curphey Forrestall (September 23, 1932 – June 8, 2006), known as Michael Forrestall, was a

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politician. Forrestall served in both the

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and

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Political career

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journalist and businessman, Forrestall was first elected to the

in the 1965 federal election as the Progressive Conservative

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(MP) for

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. He was elected the MP for Dartmouth—Halifax East in the 1968 election, and remained in the House for a total of twenty-three years. During the

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government, Forrestall served as a parliamentary secretary to a succession of ministers until he was defeated in what was by then the riding of Dartmouth in the 1988 federal election. In November 1990,

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Mulroney appointed Forrestall to the

, where he sat as a Progressive Conservative until February 2004, when he and most of the Tory

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joined the new

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. Forrestall was active on a number of causes, including benefits for Canadian Merchant Navy veterans and the protection of lighthouses. In 2000, he introduced a Private Members Bill in the Senate

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, a bill which was also supported by Senator Pat Carney who championed it after Forrestall's death and which is close to passing in the House of Commons in 2007. Forrestall's brother is the Canadian realist painter, Tom Forrestall; their sister Katherine was the mother of singer-songwriter

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."Matthew George Grimson: Mar 9, 1968 – Jun 19, 2018"
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Death

Forrestall died on June 8, 2006, at age 73; he had been admitted to a Halifax-area hospital with serious breathing problems five days earlier.

Electoral history

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Forrestall, Michael 1932 births 2006 deaths Canadian people of Irish descent Conservative Party of Canada senators Members of the House of Commons of Canada from Nova Scotia Canadian senators from Nova Scotia Progressive Conservative Party of Canada MPs Progressive Conservative Party of Canada senators People from Annapolis County, Nova Scotia Place of birth missing 21st-century Canadian politicians