Patrick Morgan Mahoney

Patrick Morgan Mahoney PC , QC (* 20th January 1929 in Winnipeg , Manitoba , † 8. June 2012 ) was a Canadian entrepreneur , lawyer and former politician of the Liberal Party .

Life

After attending school, Mahoney completed a degree and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts (BA). He then completed a postgraduate degree in law with a Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.) and then worked as a lawyer and entrepreneur.

In the election of June 25, 1968 , he was elected as a candidate for the Liberal Party in the Calgary South constituency as a member of the House of Commons , but belonged to this only one term until his defeat in the House of Commons election on October 30, 1972 . In the 1968 election he defeated the previous MP Harold Raymond Ballard of the Progressive Conservative Party with a majority of 700 votes, while in the 1972 election he lost more than 16,000 votes to his progressive-conservative challenger Peter Bawden. Mahoney was the last Liberal MP to get a seat in any of Calgary's constituencies.

During this time he was also Parliamentary Secretary to the Finance Minister from October 1970 to January 1972 and then from January to November 1972 Minister of State without portfolio in the 20th federal government headed by Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau .

After leaving the government and the House of Commons, Mahoney retired from politics and initially worked as a lawyer and entrepreneur again. In July 1983 he was appointed a judge at the Federal Court of Appeals in Ottawa and was a member of it for eleven years until October 1994.

Web links

• Entry on Parliament's homepage

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Pat Mahoney, Calgary's last Liberal MP, this at 83 ( Memento of 13 June 2012 at the Internet Archive ) english retrieved 18 June 2012
2. ↑ List of former judges on the homepage of the Federal Court of Appeals ( Memento from July 17, 2011 in the Internet Archive )