Parti Québécois candidates, 1998 Quebec provincial election

The Parti Québécois ran one hundred and twenty-four candidates in the 1998 provincial election, seventy-seven of whom were elected as the party won a second consecutive majority government under the leadership of Lucien Bouchard. Many of the party's candidates have their own biography pages; information about others may be found here.

Candidates

Chapleau: Claude Hallé

Claude Hallé is a founder of a program for single parents in the Outaouais. Thirty-eight years old in 1998, she focused her campaign on social rather than constitutional issues, downplaying the importance of Quebec sovereignty. She received 12,600 votes (30.72%), finishing second against Liberal candidate Benoît Pelletier.

In 2003, Hallé criticized a plan by Parti Québécois leader Bernard Landry to allow the parents of young children to take one unpaid day off per week. She argued that the plan would discriminate against single parents, who would be less likely to afford the pay reduction.

Claude Hall

Claude Hampton Hall, Sr. (September 29, 1922 – April 3, 2001), was an historian of primarily American diplomacy who spent his entire academic career at Texas A&M University in College Station, Texas. In 1963, he published the definitive biography of former United States Secretary of State Abel Parker Upshur.

Early years and career

Hall was born to Robert Montgomery Hall (1896–1956), a Baptist minister and a barber, and the former Josephine Wood (1897–1991) in Proffit, an unincorporated community near Charlottesville in Albemarle County in north central Virginia. He graduated from public schools in 1939 and enrolled at the nearby University of Virginia. His education was interrupted from 1942–1945, when he fought in North Africa and Italy with the United States Army during World War II. After the war, he received his Bachelor of Arts (1947), Master of Arts (1949), and Ph.D. (1954), all from the University of Virginia.

Hall settled in Bryan, Texas, in 1951, when he was appointed to the TAMU faculty at a time when the institution was still all-male. He was elevated to full professor in 1964 and professor emeritus upon his retirement in 1986. In 1958, he became the first professor in the liberal arts at TAMU to receive the Association of Former Students "Distinguished Teaching Award". He was a past president of Phi Kappa Phi and was affiliated with the TAMU Century Club, the American Historical Association, the Southern Historical Association, the Virginia Historical Society, the Organization of American Historians, the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations, the Texas State Historical Association, and the East Texas Historical Association at Stephen F. Austin State University in Nacogdoches, Texas, of which he served as the fifteenth president from 1976–1977. He was a member of the large Central Baptist Church of Bryan, where he taught the men's Sunday school class until his health failed.

Claude Hall (writer)

Claude Hall is an American journalist and a former writer for and longtime radio-TV editor of Billboard magazine. He is perhaps best known for having coined the term Easy listening in 1965 in describing the sound of WPIX-FM, a radio station then heard in metropolitan New York City.

Hall is the author of "Radio Wars" an e-book available as a download on the internet.

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