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♂ Henry Leslie Rowntree
aliasLeslie Rowntree
Record
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Type of record
Elected candidate ✓
Known but unelected candidate
Perennial candidate		 Deceased Performance: 100%
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Ontario 4 0 4
Birth 2 June 1914 → 109 years + 10 months ago
Lived 60 years + 11 months
First mandate 18 October 1956 → 67 years + 6 months ago
↳ at age 42 years + 4 months
Death 17 May 1975 → 48 years + 11 months ago
Exit → Death 3 years + 6 months after 20 October 1971
Special notes
None
 
Henry Leslie Rowntree (1914–1975)
© Photo 1961 Legislative Assembly, Ontario — Public domain
Family tie with other documented individual
None
 
Well that's interesting!
Rowntree, an Ontario Progressive Conservative minister, was known to be a heavy drinker. During a session in the assembly in February 1969, he rose to speak and, after he had said a few words, Morton Shulman, an NDP opposition member, shouted, "The minister is drunk!" The speaker ended the debate. Rowntree said little more. He was removed from cabinet a year later.
 

Length of service in elected office

Legislature Total Government Opposition
years months days years months days years months days
Ontario 14 11 28 Z

Electoral history

Races 4  
Path points 5  
1 documented challenger
⊖ Joan Bissett Neiman  f  (2 runoffs)
 
 
Eligible: n/a Votes: 0 Participation: n/a Candidacy: 1
Provincial
25		 Ontario
18 October 1956
By-Election
First-past-the-post
Gov't  PC  Majority
ID: 35296(F) — 26 Feb 2022 09:54 ET
✓
 → New to this legislature
Age
42
PC
 1/1 By acclamation ?

Service: 2 years 7 months 23 days (Gov't)
Eligible: 80,247 Votes: 41,433 Participation: 51.63% Candidacies: 3
Provincial
26		 Ontario
11 June 1959
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  PC  Majority
ID: 35402(F) — 24 Dec 2022 11:45 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
45
PC
 1/3 18,355 44.77% +6,191 Loser:
LIB
 12,164 29.67% Edward Lewinsky

Service: 4 years 3 months 13 days (Gov't)
Eligible: 38,886 Votes: 23,588 Participation: 60.66% Candidacies: 3
Provincial
27		 Ontario
25 September 1963
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  PC  Majority
ID: 35508(F) — 24 Dec 2022 17:13 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
49
PC
 1/3 15,107 64.35% +8,802 Loser:
LIB
 6,305 26.86% Joan Bissett Neiman

Service: 4 years 21 days (Gov't)
Eligible: 47,574 Votes: 31,288 Participation: 65.77% Candidacies: 3
Provincial
28		 Ontario
17 October 1967
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  PC  Majority
ID: 14075(F) — 24 Dec 2022 18:11 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
53
PC
 1/3 14,780 47.53% +2,351 Loser:
LIB
 12,429 39.97% Joan Bissett Neiman

Service: 4 years 3 days (Gov't)
Eligible: 56,602 Votes: 43,955 Participation: 77.66% Candidacies: 3
Provincial
29		 Ontario
21 October 1971
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  PC  Majority
ID: 14191(F) — 1 Aug 2021 19:21 ET
—
 Incumbent did not run in this election →
Age
57		 Successor:
PC
 26,034 59.41% John P. MacBeth

Online biographical references (2)

Bilingual references are counted as a single reference.  Retrieved on
EN Legislative Assembly of Ontario: Members
Henry Leslie Rowntree		 19 Apr 2024
FR Assemblée législative de l'Ontario: Membres
Henry Leslie Rowntree		 19 Apr 2024
EN Wikipedia
Leslie Rowntree		 19 Apr 2024

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