riding predecessor successor religion birth_place imagesize profession party birth_date spouse term_start article_title term_end
beauharnois -- salaberry gérard bruchési jean-guy hudon roman catholic salaberry-de-valleyfield , quebec 150px insurance broker , military reservist liberal 8 august 1924 janine sauvé -lrb- m. 13 october 1947 -rrb- 1962 gérald laniel
 1984
gérald laniel

gérald laniel -lrb- born 8 august 1924 in salaberry-de-valleyfield , quebec -rrb- was a liberal party member of the canadian house of commons .
his career included work as an insurance broker and in the military , including service as a royal canadian air force flying officer during world war ii and as a reservist from 1949 to 1958 .
he represented the quebec electoral district of beauharnois -- salaberry since his election there in the 1962 federal election .
he was re-elected in 1963 , 1965 , 1968 , 1972 , 1974 , 1979 and 1980 , serving eight consecutive terms in the 25th to 32nd canadian parliaments .
laniel left federal politics in 1984 to join the saint lawrence seaway commission .
