Famous People with Name Champagne

Michel Champagne            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Michel Champagne: was a member of the Canadian House of Commons. He was a businessman, political scientist and teacher by career. He successfully ran as a Progressive Conservative candidate in the Quebec riding of Champlain in the 1984 and was re-elected in 1988. Champagne was a member in the 33rd and 34th Canadian Parliaments. Champagne ran for the Parti Québécois (PQ) nomination for the 2001 by-election in the district of Laviolette, with the backing of influential party insider and Cabinet Member Gilles Baril. However, local PQ card-carrying supporters chose Yves Demers over him. Demers eventually lost the election against Liberal Julie Boulet.

Charles Laplante Dit Champagne            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Charles Laplante Dit Champagne: was a lawyer, judge and political figure in Quebec. He represented Deux-Montagnes in the Legislative Assembly of Quebec from 1876 to 1882 as a Conservative. His name also appears as Charles Champagne.. He was admitted to the Lower Canada bar in 1865. Champagne was first elected to the Quebec assembly in an 1876 by-election held after Gédéon Ouimet resigned his seat.

Charles Champagne            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Charles Champagne: was a lawyer and political figure in Quebec. He represented Hochelaga in the Legislative Assembly of Quebec from 1888 to 1890 as a Liberal. His name also appears as Charles Laplante dit Champagne.

Noëlla Champagne            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Noëlla Champagne: is a politician from Quebec, Canada, and a second-term Member of the National Assembly (MNA). She ran as a Parti Québécois (PQ) candidate in the district of Champlain in the 2003 provincial general election, which resulted in a tie vote. A subsequent by-election was necessary to break the tie. It gave Champagne, who became the 45th PQ MNA to the new assembly, the victory over Liberal candidate and former MNA Pierre-A. Brouillette. In the 2008 election however, Champagne won her seat back from the Quebec Liberal Party's Pierre-Michel Auger who defeated Champagne in the 2007 elections as a member of the ADQ but switched to the Liberal before the elections.

Andrée Champagne            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Andrée Champagne: is an actress, pianist and Canadian politician. Champagne entered politics as a Progressive Conservative candidate in the 1984 election, and was elected in the Tory landslide as Member of Parliament for Saint-Hyacinthe-Bagot . She was appointed to the Cabinet of Prime Minister Brian Mulroney as Minister of State for Youth. From 1986 to 1990, she served as Assistant Deputy Chair of the Committee of the Whole House, and became Deputy Speaker of the House of Commons in 1990. She served in that role until her electoral defeat in the 1993 general election. On August 2, 2005, Prime Minister Paul Martin announced the appointment by Governor General Adrienne Clarkson of Champagne as a Conservative member of the Canadian Senate.