riding death_date death_place birth_place imagesize profession party birth_date spouse term_start article_title term_end name
lapointe 2 july 2004 québec , quebec saint-cyriac , quebec 150px journalist independent 19 february 1924 rose ange plourde annette labelle -lrb- m. unknown -rrb- august 1953 fernand girard
 june 1957 fernand girard
fernand girard

fernand girard -lrb- 19 february 1924 -- 2 july 2004 -rrb- was an independent member of the canadian house of commons .
he was born in saint-cyriac , quebec and became a journalist , including editor of `` le réveil de jonquière '' .
he was first elected to parliament at the lapointe riding in the 1953 general election .
after serving his only term , the 22nd canadian parliament , girard was defeated by augustin brassard of the liberal party .
after this , girard moved to provincial politics where he became general secretary and cabinet chief of quebec 's union nationale party , serving under premier daniel johnson , sr. .
after his retirement , he became vice-president of société québécoise d'initiative pétrolière -lrb- soquip -rrb- .
in 1954 , with gaston d'auteuil , girard wrote the book `` artisans d'un beau royaume '' , a historic review of the sageunay-lac-saint-jean area .
girard died at jonquière on 2 july 2004 , aged 80 .
