# Richard Legendre > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Richard_Legendre > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Richard_Legendre.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Legendre > Source revision: 1341051249 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) Canadian tennis player Richard Legendre Born (1953-01-19) January 19, 1953 (age 73) Occupations Tennis player Politician Years active 1972-1973 **Richard Legendre** (born January 19, 1953, in Montmagny, Quebec) is a former professional [tennis](/source/Tennis) player and politician in [Quebec](/source/Quebec), Canada. ## Tennis Legendre was born in [Montmagny](/source/Montmagny%2C_Quebec), [Quebec](/source/Quebec). He once represented [Canada](/source/Canada) at the [Davis Cup](/source/Davis_Cup) and had a career-high tennis ranking of World No. 232 in singles (December 1978). He played [NCAA](/source/NCAA) collegiate tennis at [Florida State University](/source/Florida_State_University) in 1972 and 1973.[1] ## Politics He was the Quebec minister of sports in [Bernard Landry](/source/Bernard_Landry)'s cabinet, after being elected as a Member of the [National Assembly of Quebec](/source/National_Assembly_of_Quebec) for the riding of [Blainville](/source/Blainville_(provincial_electoral_district)) in 2001. In 2005 he was a candidate in the [Parti Québécois](/source/Parti_Qu%C3%A9b%C3%A9cois)'s [leadership election](/source/2005_Parti_Qu%C3%A9b%C3%A9cois_leadership_election), a bid notably supported by former Quebec minister [François Legault](/source/Fran%C3%A7ois_Legault) and [sprinter](/source/Sprint_(running)) and [olympic medalist](/source/Olympic_medalist) [Bruny Surin](/source/Bruny_Surin). Legendre placed third with 7.5% of the vote. In the [2007 elections](/source/2007_Quebec_general_election), Legendre was surprisingly defeated by the [Action democratique du Quebec](/source/Action_democratique_du_Quebec)'s [Pierre Gingras](/source/Pierre_Gingras) who was a former mayor for the City of [Blainville](/source/Blainville%2C_Quebec). The party nearly won every seat in the lower Laurentians region.[2] Legendre was Vice-President of [Montreal Impact](/source/Montreal_Impact_(1992%E2%80%932011)); he was nominated on August 13, 2007.[3] He's now teaching at HEC Montreal, and regularly appears on TVA Sports morning show Les Partants commenting on economic sports news. ## Electoral record (partial) v t e Quebec provincial by-election, October 1, 2001: Blainville Party Candidate Votes % Parti Québécois Richard Legendre 10,323 46.25 Liberal Jocelyne Roch 8,990 40.28 Action démocratique Michel Paulette 2,186 9.79 Bloc Pot Sylvain Mainville 384 1.72 Alternative progressiste Thérèse Hamel 339 1.52 Independent Régent Millette 97 0.44 Total valid votes 22,319 98.63 Rejected and declined votes 309 1.37 Turnout 22,628 48.58 Electors on the lists 46,581 Source: Elections Quebec ## See also - [2005 Parti Québécois leadership election](/source/2005_Parti_Qu%C3%A9b%C3%A9cois_leadership_election) - [Quebec sovereignty movement](/source/Quebec_sovereignty_movement) ## References 1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** ["Florida State University Official Athletic Site - Men's Tennis"](https://web.archive.org/web/20110727034032/http://www.seminoles.com/sports/m-tennis/archive/fsu-m-tennis-alltimedual.html). Archived from [the original](http://www.seminoles.com/sports/m-tennis/archive/fsu-m-tennis-alltimedual.html) on 2011-07-27. Retrieved 2009-09-25. 1. **[^](#cite_ref-2)** ["L'ADQ déloge le PQ dans les Laurentides"](http://lcn.canoe.com/lcn/national/quebec2007/archives/2007/03/20070326-235511.html).{{[cite web](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Cite_web)}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service ([link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:CS1_maint:_deprecated_archival_service)) 1. **[^](#cite_ref-3)** ["Staff"](https://web.archive.org/web/20070520010227/http://www.impactmontreal.com/Team/Staff.aspx?language=EN&Category=2). Archived from [the original](http://www.impactmontreal.com/Team/Staff.aspx?language=EN&Category=2) on 2007-05-20. ## External links - [Richard Legendre](https://www.atptour.com/en/players/-/L125/overview) at the [Association of Tennis Professionals](/source/Association_of_Tennis_Professionals) - ["Biography"](http://www.assnat.qc.ca/en/deputes/legendre-richard-5783/biographie.html). *Dictionnaire des parlementaires du Québec de 1792 à nos jours* (in French). [National Assembly of Quebec](/source/National_Assembly_of_Quebec). - [Bilan du Siècle biography](http://bilan.usherbrooke.ca/bilan/pages/biographies/721.html) National Assembly of Quebec Preceded by Céline Signori (PQ) MNA, District of Blainville 2001–2007 Succeeded by Pierre Gingras (ADQ) v t e Cabinet of Premier of Quebec Bernard Landry (2001–2003) Bernard Landry Maxime Arseneau Gilles Baril Jacques Baril Louise Beaudoin Stéphane Bédard Paul Bégin Roger Bertrand Rosaire Bertrand André Boisclair Claude Boucher André Boulerice Jocelyne Caron Jean-Pierre Charbonneau Solange Charest David Cliche Jacques Côté Rita Dionne-Marsolais Joseph Facal François Gendron Linda Goupil Guy Julien Normand Jutras François Legault Richard Legendre Nicole Léger Diane Lemieux Michel Létourneau Agnès Maltais Pauline Marois Serge Ménard Lucie Papineau Jean Rochon Jean-François Simard Sylvain Simard Rémy Trudel Authority control databases International ISNI VIAF GND FAST WorldCat National United States Other Yale LUX This article about a Member of the National Assembly of Quebec from the Parti Québécois is a stub. 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