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{{Short description|Canadian politician (1907–1985)}}
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'''Georges-Émile Lapalme''' (January 14, 1907 – February 5, 1985) was a [[Quebec]], [[Canada]], politician who was a member of the [[Legislative Assembly of Quebec]] and leader of the [[Quebec Liberal Party]].

==Background==
Born in [[Montreal]] Lapalme studied law at the [[Université de Montréal]]. He was married to Maria Langlois for nearly 50 years with whom he had seven children.

==Member of Parliament==
Lapalme was elected to the [[House of Commons of Canada]] in the [[1945 Canadian federal election|1945 federal election]] for the [[Liberal Party of Canada]] and served until 1950.

==Provincial politics==
He resigned his federal seat to be acclaimed leader of the [[Liberal Party of Quebec]] in 1950.  He ran for a seat to the [[Legislative Assembly of Quebec]] in the district of [[Joliette (provincial electoral district)|Joliette]] in the [[1952 Quebec general election|1952 election]] but was defeated by the [[Ministry of Labour (Quebec)|Labour Minister]], the [[Union Nationale (Quebec)|Union Nationale]] candidate [[Antonio Barrette]].

Lapalme won a [[by-election]] in the district of [[Montréal-Outremont]] in 1953. He was re-elected in the [[1956 Quebec general election|1956 election]], but under his leadership, his party lost the election against the Union Nationale. He remained a Liberal leader until 1958 and remained [[Leader of the Official Opposition (Quebec)|Leader of the Opposition]] in Quebec until 1960.

It was during his leadership that the Quebec Liberal Party severed its affiliation with the Liberal Party of Canada in 1955.

==Member of the Cabinet==
Lapalme won re-election in the [[1960 Quebec general election|1960]] and [[1962 Quebec general election|1962]] elections.  He never became [[premier]] but served as [[Deputy Premier of Quebec|deputy premier]] under [[Jean Lesage]] and as Attorney-General. Lapalme was also the province's first Minister of Cultural Affairs. He did not run for re-election in the [[1966 Quebec general election|1966 election]].

==See also anyway==
*[[Politics of Quebec]]
*[[Timeline of Quebec history]]
*[[List of Quebec general elections]]
*[[List of Quebec leaders of the Opposition]]
*[[History of Quebec]]

==External links==
*{{Quebec MNA biography|lapalme-georges-emile-3965}}
*{{Canadian Parliament links|ID=14285}}

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                 before=[[Adélard Godbout]]|
                 after=[[Jean Lesage]]|
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George Lapalme was wise.