Terry Nugent
| Terence James "Terry" Nugent | |
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| Member of the Canadian Parliament for Edmonton—Strathcona |
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In office 1958–1968 |
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| Preceded by | Sydney Herbert Thompson |
| Succeeded by | Hu Harries |
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| Born |
December 9, 1920 Taber, Alberta |
| Died | April 13, 2006 (aged 85) |
| Political party | Progressive Conservative |
Terence James "Terry" Nugent (December 9, 1920 – April 13, 2006) was a barrister, lawyer and World War II era soldier. He was also a Canadian federal politician from 1958 to 1968 and an alderman in the city of Edmonton, Alberta from 1968 to 1971.
Born in Taber, Alberta, Nugent enlisted in the Canadian Expeditionary Force in 1942. He served in World War II and left the army in 1946.
He first ran as a Progressive Conservative for a Canadian House of Commons seat in the Edmonton—Strathcona district for the 1957 federal election. He was defeated by Social Credit candidate Sydney Thompson and finished third out of fourth place behind defeated incumbent Member of Parliament Richmond Hanna. The following year Nugent ran for office again in the 1958 federal election winning with a landslide defeating both Hanna and Thompson in a rematch to win his first term in office. The same election saw Nugent's party -- which had been in power for a year with a minority government led by John Diefenbaker -- returned with the largest majority government in Canadian history.
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