Harold Danforth, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Canadian politician
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Place of Birth: Leamington, Ontario, Canada
About Harold Danforth
- Harold Warren Danforth (8 April 1916 – 7 May 1993) was a Progressive Conservative party member of the House of Commons of Canada.
- Born in Leamington, Ontario, he was a farmer by career. Danforth attended Ontario Agricultural College after which he farmed in the Blenheim area.
- He became a local councillor in Blenheim, Ontario between 1956 and 1958 and was then elected at the Kent riding in the 1958 federal election.
- Although he was defeated in the following federal election in 1962, he won the riding back in the 1963 election and was re-elected in 1965.
- In 1966, riding boundaries were changed and Danforth won at the new Kent—Essex riding in the 1968 federal election and again in the 1972 election.
- Danforth left federal politics when he was defeated in the 1974 election by Robert Daudlin of the Liberal party.
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