Thomas A. Giles | |
Birth Date: | 23 November 1916 |
Birth Place: | Victoria, Nova Scotia |
Death Place: | Antigonish, Nova Scotia |
Office: | MLA for Cumberland West |
Term Start: | 1949 |
Term End: | 1953 |
Predecessor: | new riding |
Successor: | Allison T. Smith |
Party: | Progressive Conservative |
Occupation: | lawyer |
Thomas Augustine Giles (November 23, 1916 – October 23, 1970) was a Canadian politician. He represented the electoral district of Cumberland West in the Nova Scotia House of Assembly from 1949 to 1953. He was a member of the Progressive Conservative Party of Nova Scotia.[1]
Born in 1916 at Victoria, Cumberland County, Nova Scotia, Giles graduated from St. Francis Xavier University and Dalhousie University, and was a lawyer by career.[2] He married Joan Edwards of Salisbury, England in 1945, and then Sylvia Bowser of Sussex, New Brunswick.[2] Giles entered provincial politics in the 1949 election, defeating Liberal incumbent Kenneth Judson Cochrane by 177 votes in the newly established Cumberland West riding.[3] He was defeated by Liberal Allison T. Smith when he ran for re-election in 1953.[4] [5] In 1967, Giles was appointed a judge of the Provincial Magistrate's Court.[2] He died at Antigonish on October 23, 1970.[2]