Hughes Cleaver
Hughes Cleaver | |
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![]() Hughes Cleaver on his reelection in 1945 | |
Member of Parliament for Halton | |
In office October 1935 – June 1953 | |
Preceded by | Robert King Anderson |
Succeeded by | Sybil Bennett |
Personal details | |
Born |
Burlington, Ontario, Canada | 12 September 1892
Died |
31 October 1980 88) Burlington, Ontario, Canada | (aged
Political party | Liberal |
Spouse(s) |
Ariel Annie Shapland [1][2][3](m. 1916; d. 1975) Beatrice () [4] |
Profession | lawyer |
Ellis Hughes Cleaver Jr. (12 September 1892 – 31 October 1980) was a Liberal party member of the House of Commons of Canada. He was born in Burlington, Ontario and became a lawyer by career.
Biography
He was called to the bar in 1914[5] and later elected as Reeve of Burlington in 1918, but resigned in order to serve with the 1st Canadian Tank Battalion towards the end of World War I.[6] He was elected as Burlington's Mayor in 1920.[2]
He was first elected to Parliament at the Halton riding in the 1935 general election, running as a Liberal-Progressive candidate but later allying with the Liberals.[7] He was afterwards re-elected under the Liberal banner for successive terms in 1940,[8] 1945 and 1949. He specialized in committee work during his time there, and served as Chairman of the Banking and Commerce Committee for ten years, of the War Expenditures Committee for two years, as well as of the Government-owned Railway and TCA Committee.[9]
Cleaver left the House of Commons after completing his fourth term in office, the 21st Canadian Parliament, and did not seek another term in the 1953 election upon being reinstated as a barrister by the Law Society of Upper Canada.[10][lower-alpha 1] In his professional work afterwards, he was a key player in the development of many of Burlington's subdivisions, and helped to establish the Joseph Brant Memorial Hospital.[9]
Electoral record
Canadian federal election, 1949 | ||||||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
Liberal | Hughes Cleaver | 9,546 | 49.0 | +2.8 | ||||
Progressive Conservative | M. Sybil Bennett | 8,099 | 41.6 | -1.0 | ||||
Co-operative Commonwealth | William Albert Shane | 1,829 | 9.4 | -1.8 | ||||
Total valid votes | 19,474 | 100.0 |
Canadian federal election, 1945 | ||||||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
Liberal | Hughes Cleaver | 7,344 | 46.3 | -9.5 | ||||
Progressive Conservative | Allan Stanley Nicholson | 6,763 | 42.6 | -1.7 | ||||
Co-operative Commonwealth | Carlyle C. Browne | 1,770 | 11.1 | n/a | ||||
Total valid votes | 15,877 | 100.0 |
Note: Progressive Conservative vote is compared to "National Government" vote in 1940 election.
Canadian federal election, 1940 | ||||||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
Liberal | Hughes Cleaver | 7,788 | 55.7 | +8.9 | ||||
National Government | George C. Atkins | 6,184 | 44.3 | +5.3 | ||||
Total valid votes | 13,972 | 100.0 |
Note: "National Government" vote is compared to Conservative vote in 1935 election.
Canadian federal election, 1935 | ||||||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
Liberal–Progressive | Hughes Cleaver | 6,177 | 46.8 | +1.4 | ||||
Conservative | George Currie | 5,146 | 39.0 | -15.6 | ||||
Reconstruction | Melville Marks Robinson | 1,876 | 14.2 | n/a | ||||
Total valid votes | 13,199 | 100.0 |
Notes
- ↑ He had been disbarred for misuse of clients' funds, shortly after the 1929 stock market crash[11]
References
- ↑ "Pretty Wedding at Burlington". The Acton Free Press. August 31, 1916. p. 3.
- 1 2 Normandin, Pierre G. (1952). The Canadian Parliamentary Guide. H.J. Morgan. p. 161.
- ↑ "Cleaver, Ariel Annie Shapland (Died)". The Burlington Gazette. November 25, 1975. p. 61.
- ↑ "Halton MP 19 years; Hughes Cleaver dies". The Acton Free Press. November 5, 1980. p. 2.
- ↑ Minutes of Convocation. Volume 5. Law Society of Upper Canada. 1980. p. 518.
- ↑ "Service Record". Library and Archives Canada. Retrieved December 7, 2017.
- ↑ Cleaver, Hughes (October 9, 1935). "To the Electors of Halton County". The Georgetown Herald. p. 2.
- ↑ Cleaver, Hughes (February 7, 1940). "To the Eelctors of Halton". The Georgetown Herald. p. 5.
- 1 2 "Set Time Record as M.P., Cleaver 50 Years Married". The Georgetown Herald. September 8, 1966. p. 12.
- ↑ "Meeting of Convocation". Law Society of Upper Canada. October 18, 1951. p. xliii.
- ↑ "Request for Removal of 514 Pearl Street (The Hughes Cleaver House) from Municipal Register for Demolition" (PDF). Planning and Building Department, City of Burlington. April 11, 2016. p. 4.
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