Jack Irvine Explained

Jack Irvine
Birth Date:1912 1, df=yes
Birth Place:Wolfe Island, Ontario
Death Place:Simcoe, Ontario
Spouse:Doris Virginia Seeley (married July 3, 1937 - June 7, 1967[1])
Children:John H. Irvine
Mother:Rachella Niles[2]
Father:Byron Irvine
Riding:London
Term Start:April 8, 1963[3]
Term End:June 25, 1968[4]
Predecessor:Ernest Halpenny
Successor:Judd Buchanan
Profession:merchant
Party:Progressive Conservative
Office2:Alderman
for London City Council
Term Start2:1960
Term End2:1963
Education:Kingston Collegiate and Vocational Institute, Queen's University

John Alfred (Jack) Irvine (26 January 1912 – 20 July 1996) was a Progressive Conservative party member of the House of Commons of Canada. He was a merchant by career. Irvine ran Irvine Appliances.[5]

Irvine was born at Wolfe Island, Ontario. He married Doris Seeley in 1937, and moved to Lambeth, London, Ontario in 1950. He entered municipal politics in 1959, becoming an alderman for the London, Ontario city government.

Irvine left local politics in 1963 and was elected to the House of Commons at the London riding in the 1963 general election, then re-elected there in the 1965. After electoral district boundary changes in the late 1960s, Irvine campaigned at London West for the 1968 federal election but lost to Judd Buchanan of the Liberal party.

Irvine died at a nursing home in Simcoe, Ontario in July 1996.[6]

References

  1. News: Mrs. Irvine dies at 49 . London Free Press . June 7, 1967.
  2. Book: Johnson . J.E. . The Canadian Directory of Parliament 1867-1967 . 1968 . Public Archives of Canada . Ontario.
  3. Book: Brock. Dan. McEwan. Catherine. Fragments from the Forks: London, Ontario's Legacy. 2011. The London and Middlesex Historical Society. London, Ontario, Canada. 978-0-9866899-0-1. 286.
  4. Book: Brock. Dan. McEwan. Catherine. Fragments from the Forks: London, Ontario's Legacy. 2011. The London and Middlesex Historical Society. London, Ontario, Canada. 978-0-9866899-0-1. 296.
  5. News: House to be removed for new bank site . London Free Press . July 3, 1950.
  6. News: Obituary: Former MP And Local Resident Dies . . 25 July 1996 . 9 .

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