Bill Hartley (politician), Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Canadian politician
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Place of Birth: Estevan, Saskatchewan, Canada
About Bill Hartley (politician)
- William Leonard Hartley (December 12, 1916 – May 4, 2003) was an electrician, insurance salesman and political figure in British Columbia.
- He represented Yale from 1963 to 1966 and Yale-Lillooet from 1966 to 1975 as a New Democrat. He was born in Estevan, Saskatchewan, the son of Leonard Hartley and Sarah Ann Lee, both natives of England, and grew up in Clayburn, British Columbia.
- Hartley settled in Mission, B.C.
- He was president of the North Fraser Co-operative Association and served on the board of C.U.
- & C.
- Health Services.
- Hartley ran unsuccessfully a number of times as a Co-operative Commonwealth Federation candidate for a seat in federal elections, before he was elected provincially for the New Democratic Party in 1963.
- He was subsequently re-elected three times.
- He served in the provincial cabinet as Minister of Public Works, in the New Democratic Party government from 1972-75 Hartley was defeated when he ran for re-election in 1975.
- He retired from the insurance business in 1986.Hartley help found Co-op Fire and Casualty, later The Co-operators.In 1955, he married Marianne Martha Mueller a nurse from Lumsden, Saskatchewan.
- He had three children, Gretchen, Eric and Lisa.
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