Thomas A. Giles, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Canadian judge (1916-1970)
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Place of Birth: Victoria, Nova Scotia, Nova Scotia, Canada
About Thomas A. Giles
- Thomas Augustine Giles (November 23, 1916 – October 23, 1970) was a Canadian politician.
- He represented the electoral district of Cumberland West in the Nova Scotia House of Assembly from 1949 to 1953.
- He was a member of the Progressive Conservative Party of Nova Scotia.Born in 1916 at Victoria, Cumberland County, Nova Scotia, Giles graduated from St.
- Francis Xavier University and Dalhousie University, and was a lawyer by career.
- He married Joan Edwards of Salisbury, England in 1945, and then Sylvia Bowser of Sussex, New Brunswick.
- Giles entered provincial politics in the 1949 election, defeating Liberal incumbent Kenneth Judson Cochrane by 177 votes in the newly established Cumberland West riding.
- He was defeated by Liberal Allison T.
- Smith when he ran for re-election in 1953.
- In 1967, Giles was appointed a judge of the Provincial Magistrate's Court.
- He died at Antigonish on October 23, 1970.
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