Samuel Gargan (born ) is a former long serving politician and Speaker of the

Legislative Assembly of the Northwest Territories The Northwest Territories Legislative Assembly, or Legislative Council of the Northwest Territories (with Northwest hyphenated as North-West until 1906), is the legislature and the seat of government of Northwest Territories in Canada. It is a u ...

. Gargan was first elected to the Northwest Territories Legislature in the 1983 Northwest Territories general election. He was re-elected to a second term in the

1987 Northwest Territories general election The 1987 Northwest Territories general election was held on October 5, 1987. This was the last election in which Elections Canada would administer the elections. Election Results The election was held in 24 constituencies with 15,901 ballots cas ...

. He would be returned by acclamation to a third term in the

1991 Northwest Territories general election The 1991 Northwest Territories general election was held on October 15, 1991. Election Results The election was held in 24 constituencies with 16,068 ballots cast, a turnout of 76.25%. Outgoing Premier Dennis Patterson ran for re-election but wa ...

. He would be elected Speaker by members of the Legislature on February 15, 1995. He ran for re-election to what would be his final term in the

1995 Northwest Territories general election 1995 was designated as: * United Nations Year for Tolerance * World Year of Peoples' Commemoration of the Victims of the Second World War This was the first year that the Internet was entirely privatized, with the United States government ...

. He served his entire fourth term as Speaker, running for a fifth term in the

1999 Northwest Territories general election The 1999 Northwest Territories general election was held on December 6, 1999. This was the first election under the new boundaries that were created when Nunavut was carved out of the Northwest Territories. 19 members were elected, five fewer tha ...

. In that election he was defeated by candidate Michael McLeod losing his seat and the Speakership. In 2009, Gargan was chosen as Grand Chief of the Dehcho First Nations. He was the mayor of

Fort Providence Fort Providence () is a hamlet in the South Slave Region of the Northwest Territories, Canada. Located west of Great Slave Lake, it has all-weather road connections by way of the Yellowknife Highway (Great Slave Highway) branch off the Macke ...

from December 15, 2015 until December 11, 2018 when he was defeated by Danny Beaulieu.

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