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Place of Birth: Woodstock, Ontario, Canada
About Wally Nesbitt
- Wallace Bickford (Wally) Nesbitt (7 August 1918 – 21 December 1973) was a Progressive Conservative member of the House of Commons of Canada.
- He was born in Woodstock, Ontario and became a barrister and lawyer by career. During World War II, Nesbitt served with the Royal Canadian Navy between 1941 and 1945.
- After studies at Woodstock Collegiate Institute, the University of Western Ontario and Osgoode Hall Law School, he formally became a lawyer in 1947, then in 1954 was appointed Queen's Counsel.He was first elected at Ontario's Oxford riding in the 1953 general election and was re-elected there for eight successive terms.
- He attended the 12th General Assembly of the United Nations (UN) as the head of the Canadian delegation and in 1959 became first vice-president of that Assembly.
- Until 1968, Nesbitt continued to represent Canada at the UN.After a heart attack on 2 December 1973, Nesbitt was treated at Woodstock General Hospital where he died 19 days later, cutting short his political life during the 29th Canadian Parliament.Nesbitt's great-uncle, Edward Walter Nesbitt, was also a member of Parliament for Oxford between 1911 and 1921.
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