Marcel Lambert

Who was Marcel Lambert?

Marcel Joseph Aimé Lambert, PC QC was a Canadian politician and Speaker of the Canadian House of Commons.

Lambert was born in Edmonton to a French Canadian father and a Belgian mother. He served in the King's Own Calgary Regiment during World War II, and saw action at Dieppe, France. He achieved rank as Lieutenant Colonel.

After returning to Alberta, he was named a Rhodes Scholar in 1946 and in 1947 he entered Hertford College, Oxford to study law.

Lambert was a candidate for the Alberta Progressive Conservatives in the 1952 provincial election, but failed to win a seat in the provincial legislature.

He was first elected to the House of Commons of Canada as Progressive Conservative Member of Parliament from the riding of Edmonton West in the 1957 election. He was returned in the nine following elections, and remained an MP until his retirement prior to the 1984 election.

Lambert served as Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of National Defence from 1957 to 1958, and as Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of National Revenue until 1962.