Terence James Nugent (December 9, 1920 – April 13, 2006) was a barrister, lawyer and World War II era soldier.
Born in Taber, Alberta, Nugent enlisted in the Canadian Expeditionary Force in 1942.
He first ran as a Progressive Conservative for a House of Commons of Canada seat in the Edmonton—Strathcona district for the 1957 federal election.
During the Cuban Missile Crisis Nugent stood in parliament and asked MPs to refuse to support the American government should it threaten to invade Cuba saying "One of the fundamental facts we must recognize is that Cuba is an independent, sovereign nation ... we may not like its form of government but I suggest that whether it is a small country or a large country, or whether it is a country that is friendly to us or not, it is a sovereign state and those of us who believe in the rights of sovereign states as subscribed to in the United Nations charter, must concede that big or small, friendly or unfriendly, whether we like it or not, that country has the same rights as we have."
Nugent faced former MP John Decore defeating him by just 2000 votes to win his third and final term in office.