Morton Shulman, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Morton Shulman

Politician, physician, businessman and broadcaster from Toronto, Canada.

Date of Birth: 25-Apr-1925

Place of Birth: Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Date of Death: 18-Aug-2000

Profession: politician

Nationality: Canada

Zodiac Sign: Taurus


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About Morton Shulman

  • Morton Shulman, OC (25 April 1925 – 18 August 2000) was a Canadian politician, businessman, broadcaster, columnist, coroner, and physician.
  • He was born in Toronto, Ontario in 1925 to a Jewish family.
  • He first came to fame as Ontario's Chief Coroner in the early 1960s.
  • During this period, he also became a very successful stock-market player, and authored a bestselling book about how to make money in the stock market.
  • In the mid-1960s he embarrassed the provincial government when he found them to be disobeying provincial health and safety laws.
  • He was fired and then ran for elected office in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario, avenging himself by beating a government Member of Provincial Parliament (MPP).
  • He completed two terms as the High Park electoral district's MPP, and did not run in the 1975 Ontario general election.
  • His fame grew in the late 1970s and 1980s when he hosted a nationally distributed television talk show called The Shulman File.
  • He was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease in the early 1980s and became a pharmaceutical entrepreneur specializing in treatments for that disease.
  • Near the end of his life, he received recognition for his lifetime's work, when he was appointed to the Order of Canada, the country's highest civilian award.
  • He died in Toronto in the year 2000.

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