predecessor successor parliament appointed constituency_mp birth_place death_date party office birth_date term_start article_title term_end name
maurice lalonde gustave roy elie beauregard gustave roy gaston clermont jacques flynn canadian john diefenbaker labelle mont-laurier , quebec 19 march 1986 progressive conservative senator for rougemont , quebec 7 august 1916 1949 1957 january 20 , 1960 henri courtemanche
 1953 1960 december 22 , 1961 henri courtemanche
henri courtemanche

henri courtemanche , -lrb- august 7 , 1916 -- march 19 , 1986 -rrb- was a canadian parliamentarian .
born in mont-laurier , quebec , the son of victor courtemanche and louise massé , he was educated at the académie de mont-laurier , the séminaire de st. joseph de mont-laurier , the collège saint-laurent and the université de montréal .
courtemanche was called to the quebec bar in 1947 and practised law in mont-laurier and montreal .
in 1945 , he married gisèle paquette , the daughter of joseph-henri-albiny paquette .
courtemanche was first elected as the progressive conservative member of parliament for labelle , quebec in the 1949 federal election .
he was defeated in 1953 but returned to the canadian house of commons in the 1957 federal election .
he had announced that he would run in the election as a `` nationalist independent '' - and ran and was elected as an `` independent progressive conservative '' .
however , the election brought the progressive conservatives to power under john diefenbaker with a minority government and courtemanche rejoined the party within weeks of its election victory and was appointed deputy speaker of the house of commons .
diefenbaker elevated courtemanche to his cabinet as secretary of state for canada following the 1958 federal election that returned the tories with a majority government .
on january 20 , 1960 , courtemanche resigned from cabinet , reportedly for health reasons , and was appointed to the senate .
in 1961 , he became the centre of a scandal when a former hospital administrator alleged that courtemanche was paid a 10 % kickback on all government grants made to a montreal hospital in the mid-1950s .
courtemanche claimed that the $ 66,000 he received in total were legal fees for his services .
he subsequently said the money was paid as a fee for his lobbying efforts .
ultimately , courtemanche resigned his senate seat on december 22 , 1961 , less than two years into his appointment , after an investigation into his activities found him `` unworthy '' of public office .
