Frederick Laurence Schaffner Explained

Honorific-Prefix:The Hon.
Frederick Laurence Schaffner
Constituency Mp:Souris
Parliament:Canadian
Predecessor:District was created in 1903
Successor:Albert Ernest Finley
Term Start:1904
Term End:1917
Office2:Senator for Souris, Manitoba
Appointed2:Robert Laird Borden
Term Start2:October 23, 1917
Term End2:May 22, 1935
Birth Date:18 August 1855
Birth Place:Williamstown, Nova Scotia
Party:Conservative

Frederick Laurence Schaffner (August 18, 1855  - May 22, 1935) was a Canadian physician and politician.

Born in Williamstown, Nova Scotia, the son of William C. Schaffner and A. Schaffner, his father of German and his mother of English descent, Schaffner was received a B.A. degree from Acadia University and a M.D., C.M. degree from Trinity College in Toronto. He was a member of the Manitoba Board of Health, a coroner, and Health Officer of the municipalities of Morton and Boissevain. He was a city councillor and Mayor of Boissevain, Manitoba.

Schaffner was elected to the House of Commons of Canada for the Manitoba electoral district of Souris in the 1904 federal election. A Conservative, he was re-elected in 1908 and 1911. During World War I, he was a medical officer in the Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps. In 1917, he was summoned to the Senate of Canada on the advice of Robert Laird Borden representing the senatorial division of Souris, Manitoba. He served until his death in 1935.

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