Gérard Ouellet (17 February 1913 – 3 April 1975) was a member of the

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. He was a farmer by career. Ouellet was born in

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, United States, the son of Emile Ouellet and Celina-Rose Berube. He was first elected as a

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party candidate at the

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riding in the 1963 general election after an earlier unsuccessful attempt to win the riding in the 1962 election. On 23 April 1964, Ouellet left the Social Credit party and joined the Progressive Conservative party for the remainder of his term in the 26th Canadian Parliament. In the 1965 federal election, Ouellet was defeated at Rimouski by Louis Guy LeBlanc of the

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Gérard Ouellet's genealogical profile
1913 births 1975 deaths People from East Hartford, Connecticut American people of French-Canadian descent Members of the House of Commons of Canada from Quebec Progressive Conservative Party of Canada MPs Social Credit Party of Canada MPs 20th-century members of the House of Commons of Canada {{ProgressiveConservative-Quebec-MP-stub