death_date children constituency_mp birth_date term_end restingplace alma_mater death_place term_start spouse image name otherparty predecessor parliament birth_place party office successor religion article_title
15 march 1950 stanley hartt joel hartt cartier 15 april 1895 march 15 , 1950 1947 shaar hashomayim cemetery , montreal queen 's university montreal , quebec march 31 , 1947 1939 rose gertrude gallay maurice hartt.png maurice hartt quebec liberal party fred rose louis fitch canadian dorohoi , romania liberal member -- saint-louis of the legislative assembly of quebec for montréal leon david crestohl dave rochon judaism maurice hartt

maurice hartt

maurice hartt -lrb- april 15 , 1895 -- march 15 , 1950 -rrb- was a romanian-born canadian politician .
born in dorohoi , romania , the son of saul hartt and malia segal , he immigrated to canada when he was twelve .
he studied law at queen 's university and was called to the quebec bar in 1935 .
he was created a king 's counsel in 1942 and practiced law in montreal .
he was elected to the legislative assembly of quebec in the riding of montréal -- saint-louis in 1939 .
a liberal , he was re-elected in 1944 .
he resigned in 1947 , when he was elected to the canadian house of commons in the riding of cartier in a 1947 by-election called when fred rose 's seat was declared vacant by a resolution of the house of commons .
a federal liberal , he was re-elected in 1949 .
he died in office in 1950 .
his son , stanley hartt , was prime minister brian mulroney 's chief of staff from 1989 to 1990 .
another son , joel hartt -lrb- 1940 -- 2009 -rrb- , was a professor of humanities at john abbott college and chairman of the lakeshore school board .
