John Pallett
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John Cameron Pallett (February 15, 1921 – October 3, 1985) was a Canadian lawyer and politician.
Born in Dixie, Ontario, he was educated at University of Toronto, at which he got a B.A. in 1941. He then attended Osgoode Hall Law School, graduating with a Bachelor of Laws in 1947. He founded Pallett & Pallett law firm in 1948; subsequently Pallett Valo, Mississauga. He also served as a Bencher of the Law Society of Upper Canada.
Pallett was a Member of Parliament of Canada from 1954 to 1962; Parliamentary Secretary to the Prime Minister of Canada; Chief Government Whip and leader of the Canadian NATO delegation to Europe in 1959. He served as a Lieutenant in the Governor General's Horse Guards armoured reconnaissance division in France, Italy and Germany, from 1942 to 1945.
He was the Chairman of the Mississauga Hospital Board of Directors; Chairman of the Mississauga Hospital Foundation Board of Directors; President of Port Credit Lions Club; President of Credit Valley Golf Club; President of Dixie Curling Club; Director of Griffith Island Club.
He was married to Mary Virginia Leuty and had five children: James McCormack, Megan Jane, Bruce Cameron, Drew Malcolm and Wesley Newman (July 1, 1962 to March 4, 1974).
He died on Griffith Island, Ontario in the Georgian Bay area in 1985.
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- "OBITUARY John Cameron Pallett", The Globe and Mail, October 5, 1985.
