Vital Mallette

J. L. Vital Mallette
Member of Parliament for Jacques Cartier
In office October 1935 – April 1939
Preceded by	Georges-Philippe Laurin
Succeeded by	Elphège Marier
Personal details
Born	Joseph Léon Vital Mallette (1888-09-16)16 September 1888 Pointe-Claire, Quebec
Died	Montreal, Quebec
Political party	Liberal
Spouse(s)	Aline Demers m. 10 August 1915
Profession	miller, secretary-treasurer

Joseph Léon Vital Mallette (16 September 1888 – 17 April 1939) was a Liberal party member of the House of Commons of Canada. He was born in Pointe-Claire, Quebec and became a miller and secretary-treasurer.

Mallette was mayor of Pointe-Claire, Quebec from 1923 to 1927, after terms as a community alderman from 1915 to 1917 and from 1922 to 1923.

He was elected to Parliament at the Jacques Cartier riding in the 1935 general election. In 1937, Mallette spoke in the House of Commons of the representative politics that followed the Lower Canada Rebellion a century earlier, in which his grandfather was a Patriote. His speech carried an implied charge that Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King had ignored the centennial of the rebellion.

Before he was able to complete his first term, the 18th Canadian Parliament, Mallette died on 17 April 1939 after he collapsed while crossing a Montreal street.

External links

• Vital Mallette – Parliament of Canada biography