Maurice Hartt was a Romania

Romania

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n-born Canadian

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 politician.

Born in Dorohoi

Dorohoi

Dorohoi is a city in the Botoşani County, Romania, on the right bank of the Jijia River, which broadens into a lake on the north.Dorohoi used to be a market for the timber and farm produce of the north Moldavian highlands; merchants from the neighboring states flocked to its great fair, held on...

, Romania

Romania

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, the son of Saul Hartt and Malia Segal, he immigrated to Canada when he was twelve. He studied law at Queen's University

Queen's University

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 and was called to the Quebec Bar

Barreau du Quebec

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 in 1935. He was created a King's Counsel in 1942 and practiced law in Montreal. He was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Quebec

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 in the riding of Montréal-Saint-Louis in 1939

Quebec general election, 1939

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. A Liberal, he was re-elected in 1944

Quebec general election, 1944

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. He resigned in 1947, when he was elected to the Canadian House of Commons

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 in the riding of Cartier

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 in a 1947 by-election called when Fred Rose

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's seat was declared vacant by a resolution of the House of Commons. A federal Liberal

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, he was re-elected in 1949

Canadian federal election, 1949

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. He died in office in 1950.

His son, Stanley Hartt

Stanley Hartt

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, was Prime Minister Brian Mulroney

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's Chief of Staff from 1989 to 1990. Another son, Joel Hartt (1940-2009), was a professor of Humanities at John Abbott College

John Abbott College

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and Chairman of the Lakeshore School Board.