{{Short description|Canadian politician}} {{Use Canadian English|date=September 2021}} {{Use mdy dates|date=September 2021}} {{Infobox officeholder | honorific_prefix = The Honourable | name = Gilbert White Ganong | image = Gilbert Ganong2.jpg | caption = Ganong in April 1907 | birth_date = {{Birth date|1851|5|22}} | birth_place = Springfield, New Brunswick, British North America | death_date = {{death date and age|1917|10|31|1851|5|22|mf=y}} | death_place = St. Stephen, New Brunswick, Canada | resting_place = St. Stephen Rural Cemetery | term_start = August 19, 1896 | term_end = September 17, 1908 | predecessor = Arthur Hill Gillmor | successor = William Frederick Todd | riding = Charlotte | office2 = 14th Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick | predecessor2 = Josiah Wood | successor2 = William Pugsley | term_start2 = June 29, 1917 | term_end2 = October 31, 1917 | monarch2 = George V | governor_general2 = The Duke of Devonshire | premier2 = Walter E. Foster | occupation = Businessman, politician, statesman | party = Liberal-Conservative | spouse = {{marriage|Maria Famicha Robinson|18 Oct 1876<!-- |city=St Stephen (St Stephen-Milltown), N.B. -->}} | children = No children | parents = Francis Daniel Ganong &<br />Deborah Ruth Kierstead }}
'''Gilbert White Ganong''' (May 22, 1851 – October 31, 1917) was a Canadian politician, the 14th Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick and co-founder of Ganong Bros. Limited, candy makers in the town of St. Stephen.
Born in Springfield, New Brunswick, the son of Francis Daniel Ganong and Deborah Ruth Kierstead, he was a descendant of Jean Guenon, a Huguenot exile from La Rochelle, France, who settled in New Amsterdam during the second half of the 17th century then several generations later following the American Revolutionary War; some of Guenon's antecedents were United Empire Loyalists who settled in New Brunswick (then part of Nova Scotia) in 1783.
In 1873, Gilbert Ganong co-founded Ganong Bros. Limited, with his brother James.
In 1896, he was elected to the House of Commons of Canada for the riding of Charlotte. A Liberal-Conservative, he was re-elected in 1900 and 1904, but was defeated in 1908.
On June 29, 1917, he was appointed Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick and served until his death in October. His death was due to "intestinal toxemia complications with nephritis". He was 66 years of age. {{1908 Canadian federal election/Charlotte}} {{1904 Canadian federal election/Charlotte}} {{1900 Canadian federal election/Charlotte}} {{1896 Canadian federal election/Charlotte}}
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