Patrick Morgan Mahoney

Patrick Morgan Mahoney PC, QC ( born January 20, 1929 in Winnipeg, Manitoba, † June 8, 2012 ) was a Canadian businessman, lawyer and former politician of the Liberal Party.

Life

Mahoney graduated from post-school study and ended it with a Bachelor of Arts ( BA). A subsequent post-graduate studies in law, he graduated with a Bachelor of Laws ( LL.B. ) and was then worked as a lawyer and as an entrepreneur.

In the elections of 25 June 1968 he was elected as a candidate of the Liberal Party in the constituency of Calgary South as a member of the lower house, but this was only one term until his defeat in the general election on 30 October 1972. In the 1968 election, he defeated the previous MPs Harold Raymond Ballard of the Progressive Conservative Party with a majority of 700 votes, while he lost in the 1972 election more than 16,000 votes over his progressive- conservative challenger Peter Bawden. Mahoney was the last Liberal MP, who won a seat in one of the constituencies Calgary.

During this time he was first October 1970 to January 1972 and Parliamentary Secretary at the Treasury, and then from January to November 1972, Minister of State without Portfolio in the Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau led by 20 federal government.

After retiring from government and the House itself Mahoney withdrew from politics and was first returned to the bar and Entrepreneurs. In July 1983 he was appointed a judge of the Federal Court of Appeals ( Federal Court of Appeals ) in Ottawa and was a member until October 1994 that eleven years.