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Anthony Robert Temple

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Bob Temple
Bob Temple (in centre)
Member of Parliament
for Hastings South
In office
April 8, 1963 – November 7, 1965
Preceded byLee Grills
Succeeded byLee Grills
Personal details
Born
Anthony Robert Temple

(1926-10-08)8 October 1926
Belleville, Ontario, Canada
Died7 July 1987(1987-07-07) (aged 60)
Political partyLiberal
Occupation
  • politician
  • lawyer

Anthony Robert Temple (8 October 1926 – 7 July 1987) was a Canadian lawyer and politician.

Life and career

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Temple was born in Belleville, Ontario on 8 October 1926. He was a lawyer by profession and an alderman in Belleville in the 1950s. Temple was the Liberal Party of Canada's candidate for the House of Commons of Canada in Hastings South throughout the 1960s. His first attempt to win a seat was in the 1962 federal election but he was elected in the 1963 federal election and served as a Member of Parliament for two years before being defeated in 1965. He attempted to regain his seat in the 1968 federal election but was unsuccessful.[1]

Temple was also active in the Ontario Liberal Party and was a candidate in the 1954 Ontario Liberal leadership convention placing third of three candidates with 46 votes.

Temple died on 7 July 1987, at the age of 60.[2]

References

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  1. ^ Anthony Robert Temple – Parliament of Canada biography
  2. ^ "Belleville's – This Old House 1.1". My Belleville. Retrieved 22 May 2024.