July 8, 1974 - Andy Hogan

Roman Catholic priest Andy Hogan becomes Canadian MP. An economist and Roman Catholic priest before entering politics, Andrew Hogan was born in Glace Bay, Nova Scotia on October 28, 1923. The New Democratic Party (NDP) member observed the federal NDP’s rise and fall in the 1970s. It went from holding the balance of power in Ottawa in the 1972 election, to doing poorly in 1974 against Pierre Trudeau’s federal Liberals. However, once the votes had been counted on July 8, 1974, some new Opposition Members of Parliament prevailed. Father Hogan was one of them, an MP for Cape Breton-East Richmond in Nova Scotia. As such, he was also the first Roman Catholic priest to be elected to the Canadian House of Commons. He was re-elected in 1979 when Joe Clark’s short-lived Progressive Conservatives held power. In 1980, however, when Trudeau was swept back into power, Hogan was defeated by the up-and-coming Liberal David Dingwall. Hogan died on April 10, 2002.

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