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♂ Clarence Melvin Fines
aliasClarence Melvin Fines
Record
19792 · 9410

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Type of record
Elected candidate ✓
Known but unelected candidate
Perennial candidate		 Deceased Performance: 100%
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Saskatchewan 4 0 4
Birth 16 August 1905 → 118 years + 8 months ago
Lived 88 years + 2 months
First mandate 15 June 1944 → 79 years + 10 months ago
↳ at age 38 years + 9 months
Death 27 October 1993 → 30 years + 6 months ago
Exit → Death 33 years + 4 months after 7 June 1960
Special notes
None
 
Clarence Melvin Fines (1905–1993)
© Photo Saskatchewan Archives via The Encyclopedia of Saskatchewan, University of Regina — Public domain
Family tie with other documented individual
None
 
Well that's interesting!
Fines was Saskatchewan's first "socialist" finance minister. When the CCF took power in 1944, the debt was 38% of the province's GDP, or $218 million (or close to 3.8 billion in 2024 dollars). His first budgets were balanced while increasing social spending, and once Saskatchewan became debt-free in 1953, his budgets had surpluses. Yet, to this day, Conservatives or Liberals are thought of as the "sound managers" of the public purse.
 

Election or appointment outside the scope of PoliCan

Pre-Conf. ✗
Canadian Senate ✗
Legis. Council ✗
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Deputy Minister ✗
Auto. Region ✗
Mayor/Reeve ✗
Mun./Co. Council Regina, Saskatchewan (1934–1939; 1942–1944)
School Board ✗
Blank/Vide ✗

Length of service in elected office within the scope of PoliCan

Legislature Total Government Opposition
years months days years months days years months days
Saskatchewan 15 11 19 Z

Electoral history

Races 4  
Path points 5  
12 documented challengers
⊖ William C. Beeching  m 
⊖ Marjorie A. Cooper  f  (2 runoffs)
⊖ Leslie H. Hammond  m 
⊖ John C. Knowles  m 
⊖ Hugh McGillivray  m 
⊖ Harry G.R. Walker  m 
 		 ⊖ F. Nelson Clarke  m 
⊖ Allan W.S. Embury  m 
⊖ G. Alexander Jupp  m  (2 runoffs)
⊖ Bernard J. McDaniel  m 
⊖ Garnet N. Menzies  m 
⊖ Charles C. Williams  m  (4 runoffs)
 
Eligible: 34,643 Votes: 57,096 Participation: 82.41% Candidacies: 6
Provincial
10		 Saskatchewan
15 June 1944
General
Plurality-at-large (2)
Gov't  CCF  Majority
ID: 31657(F) — 29 Mar 2024 23:54 ET
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 → New to this legislature
Age
38
CCF
 2/6 14,129 49.49% +3,147 Loser:
LIB
 10,982 38.47% Charles R. Davidson

Service: 4 years 8 days (Gov't)
Eligible: inc. Votes: 76,287 Participation: inc. Candidacies: 6
Provincial
11		 Saskatchewan
24 June 1948
General
Plurality-at-large (2)
Gov't  CCF  Majority
ID: 31710(F) — 4 Aug 2023 13:41 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
42
CCF
 2/6 20,474 53.68% +3,734 Loser:
PC
 16,740 43.89% Allan W.S. Embury

Service: 3 years 11 months 17 days (Gov't)
Eligible: 48,645 Votes: 129,046 Participation: 88.43% Candidacies: 11
Provincial
12		 Saskatchewan
11 June 1952
General
Plurality-at-large (3)
Gov't  CCF  Majority
ID: 31766(F) — 30 Mar 2024 00:15 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
46
CCF
 2/11 25,018 58.16% +8,786 Loser:
LIB
 16,232 37.74% Garnet N. Menzies

Service: 4 years 8 days (Gov't)
Eligible: 55,101 Votes: 135,410 Participation: 81.92% Candidacies: 10
Provincial
13		 Saskatchewan
20 June 1956
General
Plurality-at-large (3)
Gov't  CCF  Majority
ID: 31817(F) — 30 Mar 2024 00:06 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
50
CCF
 3/10 21,658 47.98% +9,674 Loser:
LIB
 11,984 26.55% Leslie C. Sherman

Service: 3 years 11 months 18 days (Gov't)
Eligible: 63,391 Votes: 210,320 Participation: 82.95% Candidacies: 19
Provincial
14		 Saskatchewan
8 June 1960
General
Plurality-at-large (4)
Gov't  CCF  Majority
ID: 31867(F) — 2 Mar 2024 22:12 ET
—
 Incumbent did not run in this election →
Age
54		 Successor:
CCF
 21,806 41.47% Edward C. Whelan

Online biographical references (3)

 Retrieved on
EN Encyclopedia of Saskatchewan, University of Regina
Fines, Clarence Melvin (1905-93)		 23 Mar 2024
EN Provincial Archives of Saskatchewan, SELD: Members of the Legislative Assembly
Fines, Clarence Melvin 1905 – 1993 (p. 11)		 23 Mar 2024
EN Wikipedia
Clarence Fines		 23 Mar 2024

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