List of People From Hamilton, Ontario - Politics

Politics

• Dominic Agostino (1959–2004), Member of Provincial Parliament of Ontario for Hamilton East from 1995 until his death in 2004; the first Liberal MPP in that riding since 1967.
• Lincoln Alexander (1922- ), served as the 24th Lieutenant-Governor of Ontario from 1985 to 1991. Alexander is a Governor of the Canadian Unity Council. He became Canada's first black Member of Parliament when he was elected to the Canadian House of Commons in 1968 as a member of the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada. Expressway on Hamilton mountain named after him; "Lincoln Alexander Parkway."
• Thomas Bain (1834–1915), speaker of the House of Commons.
• Richard Beasley (1761–1842), was a soldier, political figure, farmer and businessman in Upper Canada.
• Dr. Marie Bountrogianni (1956- ), BA, MEd, Currently a member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario, and is a cabinet minister in the government of Liberal Premier Dalton McGuinty.
• Isaac Buchanan (1810–1883), was a businessman and political figure in Canada West.
• Sarmite Bulte (1953- ), is a Latvian-Canadian lawyer, advocate and politician. A member of the Liberal Party, she represented the Toronto riding of Parkdale-High Park in the House of Commons through three successive parliaments from June 2, 1997 to January 22, 2006.
• Dr. Richard Butson (1922- ), retired medical officer and politician. (Ancaster, Ontario)
• Jack Cable (1934- ), Ivan John "Jack" Cable was a politician and the former Commissioner of the Yukon (October 1, 2000—December 1, 2005).
• Chris Charlton (1963- ), MA, Member of Parliament (MP) in the 2006 federal election for Hamilton Mountain.
• David Christopherson (1954- ), Represents the riding of Hamilton Centre in the House of Commons (2004- ).
• Mark Coakley, Hamilton-based activist, lawyer, author and chair of Environment Hamilton.
• Victor K. Copps (1919–1988), was a politician and Mayor of Hamilton. was one of the most influential mayors of the City of Hamilton; the city's landmark sports arena, Copps Coliseum, is named in his honour.
• Sheila Copps (1952- ), PC, HBA, LL.D (hc), journalist and former politician. Copps is a second-generation member of a political family that has dominated Hamilton-area politics on the municipal, provincial and federal levels.
• Adam Crooks (1827–1885), LLB, was an Ontario Member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario for Toronto West from 1871 to 1874 and moved to the riding of Oxford South from 1875 to 1886. Crooks was an MLA for the Ontario Liberal Party.
• Thomas Mayne Daly, Sr. (1827–1885), was a businessman and political figure in Canada West (later Ontario). He represented the riding of Perth North in the House of Commons and in the Ontario Provincial Parliament.
• Ellen Fairclough (1905–2004), was the first female member of the Canadian Cabinet. The Ellen Fairclough Building in Hamilton named after her.
• Colin Campbell Ferrie (1808–1856), Hamilton's first Mayor.
• Rolf Gerstenberger, is president of the United Steelworkers Local 1005 at Stelco's Hilton Works in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. He is also a prominent member of the Communist Party of Canada (Marxist-Leninist).
• Sir John Morison Gibson (1842–1929), lawyer, politician, businessman, was Lieutenant Governor of Ontario from 1908 to 1914.
• George Hamilton (1788–1836), settler and city founder.
• Nora-Frances Henderson (? - 1949), was the first woman on Hamilton City Council and also the first city controller in Canada. She was also a journalist and activist who pushed for children's and women's rights + health care. Henderson Hospital on Concession Street named after her, renamed to the Juravinski Hospital and Cancer Centre.
• Sir John Strathearn Hendrie (1857–1923), was Lieutenant Governor of Ontario from 1914 to 1919.
• Adam Inch (1857–1933), dairy farmer, politician. Inch Park neighbourhood on Hamilton Mountain named after him.
• Stan Keyes (1953- ), Stanley Kazmierczak Keyes, diplomat and former politician.
• Sam Lawrence (1879–1959), was mayor and pioneer of Labour Rights in Hamilton.
• William Findlay Maclean (1854–1929), was a politician. A Conservative MP for York East and York South. Served for 34-years.
• Quinto Martini (1908- ), was the first Italian Canadian elected to Parliament, where he represented Hamilton East from 1957 until he was defeated by Liberal John Munro in 1962.
• James McMillan (1838–1902), was a U.S. Senator from the state of Michigan.
• Thomas McQuesten (1882–1948), was an athlete, militiaman, lawyer, politician and government appointee who lived in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. McQuesten helped encourage McMaster University to relocate from downtown Toronto to the west Hamilton in 1930.
• Allan McNab (1798–1862), Sir. Allan Napier McNab soldier, lawyer, businessman, knight and former Prime Minister of Upper Canada. MacNab Street in Hamilton named after him.
• Bob Morrow (1946- ), Longest serving mayor in Hamilton's history (1983–2000).
• John Munro (1931–2003), PC, BA, LL.B was a politician. Elected to the House of Commons in the 1962 election. Hamilton's "John Munro International Airport" is named after the late politician.
• Devan Nair, 4th President of Singapore who moved to the United States after his presidency, but later moved to Hamilton, where he died in 2005.
• Father Sean O'Sullivan, politician and religious leader.
• William Eli Sanford (1838–1899), was a businessman, philanthropist, and politician.
• Frank Scarpitti, Mayor of Markham, Ontario. He was elected in 2006 to replace the retiring Cousens as mayor.
• Charles Stewart (1868–1946), was a politician who was Premier of Alberta from 1917 to 1921. (Wentworth County, ON)
• Allan Studholme (1846–1919), Stove maker and first Ontario Labour MLA.
• James Lyle Telford (1889–1960), was mayor of Vancouver, B.C. from 1939-40. (Valens, Ontario)
• James Walker (1874- ?), was a politician in Alberta, Canada and a municipal councillor in Edmonton.