Léo Cadieux
Léo Cadieux was born on May 28, 1908. See ranking, bio blurb, and everyone else born that day.
About Léo Cadieux
Léo Alphonse Joseph Cadieux ( kə-DEW, French: [kadjø]; May 28, 1908 – May 11, 2005) was a Canadian politician. A newspaper journalist and publisher who was born in Saint-Jérôme, Quebec, Cadieux was first elected to the House of Commons of Canada as the Liberal Member of Parliament for Terrebonne, Quebec in the 1962 election. In 1965, he was appointed to the Cabinet by Prime Minister Lester Pearson as Associate Minister of National Defence. In 1967, he was promoted to Minister of National Defence (and the first Francophone to hold the post), and remained in that position under Pearson and then…