Claude Wagner (April 4 1925 - July 11 1979) was a Quebec judge and politician. In his career, Wagner was a Crown prosecutor, professor of criminal law and judge with a law and order reputation earned when he served successively as solicitor general, attorney general, and finally minister of justice from 1964 to 1966 in the government of Quebec premier Jean Lesage.
After losing the Quebec Liberal Party leadership race to Robert Bourassa in 1970, Wagner left politics to return to the bench but then jumped to federal politics, being elected as a Progressive Conservative MP in the 1972 federal election. He was re-elected in 1974 and stood as a candidate at the 1976 Progressive Conservative leadership convention. Wagner led on the first three ballots before losing to Joe Clark. In 1978 he was elevated to the Canadian Senate. He died the next year at the age of 54.
See also
External link
- National Assembly biography http://www.assnat.qc.ca/fra/membres/notices/v-z/WAGNC.htm (in French)
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