Harry Denyer Francis | |
Office: | Member of the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia |
Predecessor: | Maurice Finnerty |
Successor: | Einar Maynard Gunderson |
Term Start: | June 12, 1952 |
Term End: | October 4, 1952 |
Constituency: | Similkameen |
Birth Date: | 28 July 1921 |
Birth Place: | Victoria, British Columbia |
Death Place: | Victoria, British Columbia |
Spouse: | Grace Richmond |
Party: | British Columbia Social Credit Party |
Occupation: | minister |
Harry Denyer Francis (July 28, 1921 - May 2, 1987) was a Canadian politician. He served in the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia briefly in 1952 from the electoral district of Similkameen, a member of the Social Credit party. He later resigned his seat in order for then-unelected finance minister Einar Maynard Gunderson to run for a seat in the legislature.[1] At the time of his initial election, he was a minister, and the pastor at the Osoyoos Pentecostal Church in Osoyoos, British Columbia.[2] He later worked in Revelstoke, British Columbia following his resignation.[3] He was also an unsuccessful Social Credit Party candidate in the 1953 provincial election in the riding of Revelstoke. He died in 1987 following a cerebral hemorrhage.[4]