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Joan Dougherty
MNA for Jacques-Cartier
In office
1981–1987
Preceded by Noël Saint-Germain
Succeeded by Neil Cameron
Personal details
Born (1927-03-02)March 2, 1927
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Died December 18, 2020(2020-12-18) (aged 93)
Westmount, Quebec, Canada
Political party Liberal
Profession social worker

Joan Dougherty (2 March 1927 – 18 December 2020) was a Canadian politician in the province of Quebec.

Biography

Born in Montreal, Quebec, to Edward Mason, a physician, and Loretta O'Reilly, Dougherty studied at The Study, a private girls' school, and received a Bachelor of Science degree in 1947 and a Masters in histology in 1950 from McGill University. She did post-graduate studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in biophysics.

Dougherty represented Jacques-Cartier in the National Assembly of Quebec from 1981 to 1987.

She died from COVID-19 during the COVID-19 pandemic in Quebec.

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