Wally Nesbitt

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name=Wallace Bickford (Wally) Nesbitt

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birth_date=7 August 1918
birth_place=Woodstock, Ontario
death_date=death date and age|1973|12|21|1918|8|7
death_place=Woodstock, Ontario
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riding=Oxford
term_start=August 1953
term_end=December 1973
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profession=barrister, lawyer
party=Progressive Conservative
party colour=Progressive Conservative Party of Canada
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Wallace Bickford (Wally) Nesbitt (7 August 1918 - 21 December 1973) was a Progressive Conservative party member of the Canadian House of Commons. He was born in Woodstock, Ontario and became a barrister and lawyer by career.

After studies at 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.cite web | url=http://www.execulink.com/~ocbogs/hist/oxhquiz/oxhframe.html | title=Weekly History Quiz, Question #115 | accessdate=2008-08-06 | date=12 January 2002 | publisher="Oxford Review" | author=Ontario Genealogical Society, Oxford County Branch ]

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