Guillaume-Alphonse Nantel (November 4, 1852 – June 3, 1909) was a Canadian

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 lawyer, journalist, author, newspaper owner, and politician. Born in Saint-Jerome, Quebec

Saint-Jérôme, Quebec

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, he was elected to the Canadian House of Commons

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 as a Conservative

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 candidate in the Quebec riding of Terrebonne in the 1882 federal election

Canadian federal election, 1882

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. He resigned less than two months later to allow Joseph-Adolphe Chapleau

Joseph-Adolphe Chapleau

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, the Secretary of State of Canada, to run for office.

In an August 1882 by-election

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, he was acclaimed to the Legislative Assembly of Quebec

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 in the riding of Terrebonne

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. He was re-elected in 1886

Quebec general election, 1886

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 and 1890

Quebec general election, 1890

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. He was acclaimed again in 1892

Quebec general election, 1892

In the Quebec general election of 1892 on March 8, 1892 to elect members of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Quebec, Canada. The incumbent Quebec Conservative Party, led by Charles-Eugène Boucher de Boucherville, defeated the Quebec Liberal Party, led by Honoré Mercier.Mercier had been...

 and re-elected in 1897

Quebec general election, 1897

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. He was the commissioner of public works

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 in the cabinets of Charles-Eugène Boucher de Boucherville and Louis-Olivier Taillon

Louis-Olivier Taillon

Sir Louis-Olivier Taillon, PC was born in Terrebonne, Quebec. He twice served as the eighth Premier of the Canadian province of Quebec....

. He was also the commissioner of crown lands in the cabinet of Edmund James Flynn

Edmund James Flynn

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. He was defeated in the 1900 elections

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.

He died in Montreal

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 in 1909. His brother, Wilfrid Bruno Nantel

Wilfrid Bruno Nantel

Wilfrid Bruno Nantel, was a Canadian politician.Born in Saint-Jérôme, Canada East, the son of Guillaume Nantel and Adélaïde Desjardins, he was a lawyer before first running unsuccessfully for the Canadian House of Commons as a Conservative candidate in the Quebec riding of Terrebonne in the 1904...

, was also a politician.