Bob McDonald (politician), Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Canadian politician
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Place of Birth: Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
About Bob McDonald (politician)
- Robert Matthew Turnbull McDonald (26 September 1931 – 9 June 2002) was a Canadian professional football player, businessman, insurance agent, public servant and politician.
- McDonald served as a Progressive Conservative party member of the House of Commons of Canada. Born in Hamilton, Ontario, Bob McDonald joined the Hamilton Tiger-Cats as a defensive halfback in 1950 and won the Canadian Football League's Gruen Trophy as rookie of the year in the Big Four eastern conference.
- He quit professional football after contracting poliomyelitis on 6 August 1953 after which he required the use of crutches.Recovered from the illness, his new career was selling insurance.
- As the 1957 federal election approached, the Progressive Conservative party recruited McDonald as their candidate in the Hamilton South riding.
- On election day, 10 June 1957, a 25-year-old McDonald defeated Liberal party incumbent Russell Reinke as part of an Ontario sweep by the Tories, helping John Diefenbaker win a minority government.After winning two more terms in the 1958 and 1962 federal elections, McDonald was defeated by William Dean Howe of the New Democratic Party in the 1963 election.
- McDonald served three terms from the 23rd to 25th Canadian Parliaments. After leaving federal politics McDonald became a Hamilton school trustee in 1964 and returned to business for a decade, running Crystal Glass and Plastics.
- He moved to provincial government in the 1970s as general manager of the Ontario Mortgage Corporation.
- From 1978 to 1991, he held various deputy minister positions with the Government of Ontario.
- He also served on the Peel Police Services Board and the National Parole Board.McDonald died in June 2002, survived by his wife, two daughters and a son.
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