Margaret Isabel Rideout, née Saunders (June 16, 1923 - May 12, 2010) was a Canadian

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 politician, who represented the electoral district

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 of Westmorland

Westmorland (electoral district)

Westmorland was a federal electoral district in New Brunswick, Canada, that was represented in the Canadian House of Commons from 1867 to 1968....

 in the Canadian House of Commons from 1964 to 1968. She was the first woman elected to the House of Commons from New Brunswick

New Brunswick

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A Liberal

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, Rideout first won the riding in a 1964 by-election

By-election

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 following the death of Sherwood Rideout

Sherwood Rideout

Sherwood Hayes Rideout was a Canadian politician, who represented the electoral district of Westmorland from 1962 until his death in 1964. Prior to his election to the Canadian House of Commons, he was the mayor of the City of Moncton...

, her husband and the district's incumbent Member of Parliament. She was re-elected in 1965

Canadian federal election, 1965

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, and was named parliamentary secretary

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 to the Minister of Health and Welfare

Health and Welfare Canada

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 in 1966. She served in that role until the 1968 election

Canadian federal election, 1968

The Canadian federal election of 1968 was held on June 25, 1968, to elect members of the Canadian House of Commons of the 28th Parliament of Canada...

, when she was defeated by Charlie Thomas

Charlie Thomas (politician)

Charles Humbert Thomas was a Progressive Conservative partymember of the Canadian House of Commons. He was born in Fredericton, New Brunswick and became a businessman and wholesaler by career....

 in the redistricted

Redistricting

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 riding of Moncton. She was subsequently named a citizenship judge

Citizenship judge

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Sherwood and Margaret Rideout's son George

George Rideout

George Saunders Rideout was a member of the Canadian House of Commons from 1988 to 1997. The son of two former federal Members of Parliament, Sherwood Rideout and Margaret Rideout, he was a lawyer by career, in practise with Stewart & Stratton and later Rideout & Robinson. He was also the mayor of...

 also served in the House of Commons in the 1990s, and also served a term as mayor of Moncton.

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