Maurice Gingues, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Canadian politician
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Place of Birth: Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada
About Maurice Gingues
- Maurice Gingues (8 November 1903 – 27 August 1960) was a Liberal party member of the House of Commons of Canada.
- He was born in Sherbrooke, Quebec and became a knitter, a merchant and a real estate businessman.He was first elected at the Sherbrooke riding in the 1940 general election then re-elected for successive terms in 1945, 1949, 1953 and 1957.
- In the 1958 election he was defeated at Sherbrooke by Maurice Allard 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 Sherbrooke riding.
- Gingues lost to Union Nationale candidate John Samuel Bourque and returned to the House of Commons following the 1945 election.
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