Hugh Tinkham Explained

Hugh Tinkham
Birth Date:8 April 1946
Birth Place:Yarmouth, Nova Scotia
Office:MLA for Yarmouth County (1974-1981)
Argyle (1981-1984)
Predecessor:George A. Snow
Successor:Neil LeBlanc
Party:Liberal
Occupation:Real estate agent, businessman

George Hugh Tinkham (born April 8, 1946) is a Canadian politician. He represented the electoral districts of Yarmouth County, and Argyle in the Nova Scotia House of Assembly from 1974 to 1984. He was a member of the Nova Scotia Liberal Party.[1]

Career

Born in 1946 at Yarmouth, Nova Scotia,[2] Tinkham entered provincial politics in the 1974 election, winning the dual-member Yarmouth County riding with fellow Liberal Fraser Mooney.[3] He was re-elected along with Mooney in the 1978 election.[4] In the 1981 election, Tinkham was re-elected in the new Argyle riding.[5] He did not seek re-election in 1984.[6] Following his political career, Tinkham worked as a real estate agent.[7]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Electoral History for Yarmouth. Nova Scotia Legislative Library. 2018-04-05.
  2. Book: Elliott. Shirley B.. The Legislative Assembly of Nova Scotia, 1758–1983 : a biographical directory. 2018-04-05. 1984. Public Archives of Nova Scotia. 0-88871-050-X. 216.
  3. Web site: Returns of General Election for the House of Assembly 1974. Elections Nova Scotia. 1974. 2014-11-10.
  4. Web site: Returns of General Election for the House of Assembly 1978. Elections Nova Scotia. 1978. 2014-11-10.
  5. Web site: Returns of General Election for the House of Assembly 1981 . Elections Nova Scotia . 1981 . 2014-11-10 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20140310212300/http://electionsnovascotia.ca/sites/default/files/General%20Election%201981.pdf . 2014-03-10 .
  6. Web site: Returns of General Election for the House of Assembly 1984 . Elections Nova Scotia . 1984 . 2014-11-10 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20131005021932/http://electionsnovascotia.ca/sites/default/files/General%20Election%201984.pdf . 2013-10-05 .
  7. Web site: Hugh Tinkham real estate biography. 2014-11-10.