Editing Carl Legault

{{Short description|Canadian politician}}
{{Use Canadian English|date=January 2023}}
{{Infobox officeholder
| name =  Carl Legault
| image =Carl Legault.png
| caption = Official 1968 portrait
| birth_date ={{Birth date|1923|1|2}}
| birth_place = [[Sturgeon Falls, Ontario]], Canada
| death_date ={{Death date and age|1983|3|12|1923|1|2}}
| death_place= [[Ottawa]], [[Ontario]], Canada
| office = [[Member of Parliament (Canada)|MP]] for [[Nipissing (electoral district)|Nipissing]]
| term_start =1964
| term_end = 1972
| predecessor =[[Jack Garland (Canadian politician)|Jack Garland]]
| successor =[[Jean-Jacques Blais]],
| party = [[Liberal Party of Canada|Liberal]]  
| spouse=Gilberte Dompierre<br />(m. 14 Oct 1946)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=POANAQAAIAAJ&q=%22Gilberte+Dompierre%22|title=The Canadian Directory of Parliament, 1867-1967|last1=Canada|first1=Public Archives of|year=1968}}</ref>
| occupation = 
}}
'''Carl Legault''' (January 2, 1923 &ndash; March 12, 1983) was a Canadian politician. He represented the [[electoral district (Canada)|riding]] of [[Nipissing (electoral district)|Nipissing]] in the [[House of Commons of Canada]] from 1964 to 1972. He represented the [[Liberal Party of Canada|Liberal Party]].

Before entering politics, Legault was a furniture retailer in Sturgeon Falls.

He was first elected in a 1964 [[byelection]], following the death of the district's longtime [[Member of Parliament (Canada)|MP]] [[Jack Garland (Canadian politician)|Jack Garland]]. He was reelected in the [[1965 Canadian federal election|1965]] and [[1968 Canadian federal election|1968]] elections, and then retired from politics in 1972. He died in 1983 and was buried at Sturgeon Falls.<ref>http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~murrayp/nipissin/sturgeon/st_mary1/legaul24.jpg {{Bare URL image|date=March 2022}}</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
* {{Canadian Parliament links|ID=5958}}

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[[Category:1923 births]]
[[Category:1983 deaths]]
[[Category:Liberal Party of Canada MPs]]
[[Category:Members of the House of Commons of Canada from Ontario]]
[[Category:Franco-Ontarian people]]
[[Category:People from West Nipissing]]
[[Category:20th-century members of the House of Commons of Canada]]


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