Federal Politics
In the 1945 federal election, he ran as an Independent Progressive Conservative for the Mount Royal seat in the Canadian House of Commons, but was defeated. He placed fourth behind the Liberal victor, the official Progressive Conservative Party of Canada candidate and the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (CCF) candidate.
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