Guillaume-Alphonse Nantel, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Canadian politician
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Place of Birth: Saint-Jérôme, Quebec, Canada
About Guillaume-Alphonse Nantel
- Guillaume-Alphonse Nantel (November 4, 1852 – June 3, 1909) was a Canadian lawyer, journalist, author, newspaper owner, and politician.
- Born in Saint-Jérôme, Quebec, he was elected to the House of Commons of Canada as a Conservative candidate in the Quebec riding of Terrebonne in the 1882 federal election.
- He resigned less than two months later to allow Joseph-Adolphe Chapleau, the Secretary of State of Canada, to run for office. In an August 1882 by-election, he was acclaimed to the Legislative Assembly of Quebec in the riding of Terrebonne.
- He was re-elected in 1886 and 1890.
- He was acclaimed again in 1892 and re-elected in 1897.
- He was the commissioner of public works in the cabinets of Charles-Eugène Boucher de Boucherville and Louis-Olivier Taillon.
- He was also the commissioner of crown lands in the cabinet of Edmund James Flynn.
- He was defeated in the 1900 elections. He died in Montreal in 1909.
- His brother, Wilfrid Bruno Nantel, was also a politician.
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