Arthur Charles Hardy, was a Canadian

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 politician.

Born in Brantford, Ontario

Brantford, Ontario

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, he ran unsuccessfully for the Canadian House of Commons

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 in the Ontario

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 riding of Leeds

Leeds (electoral district)

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 in the 1917 federal election

Canadian federal election, 1917

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. In 1922, he was called to the Canadian Senate

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 representing the senatorial division of Leeds, Ontario. A Liberal

Liberal Party of Canada

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, he served forty years until his death in 1962. In 1930, he was the Speaker of the Canadian Senate

Speaker of the Canadian Senate

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.

Hardy was the son of Ontario Premier Arthur Sturgis Hardy

Arthur Sturgis Hardy

Arthur Sturgis Hardy, QC was a lawyer and Liberal politician who served as the fourth Premier of Ontario, Canada, from 1896 to 1899. On January 19, 1870 he married Mary Morrison, daughter of Judge Joseph Curran Morrison.Hardy attended school at the Rockwood Academy in Rockwood, Ontario...

. He married Dorothy Fulford daughter of Senator George Taylor Fulford

George Taylor Fulford

George Taylor Fulford was a Canadian businessman and politician.- Life and Family :Born in Brockville, Upper Canada , to a family of United Empire Loyalist stock, he was the youngest son of Hiram Fulford and Martha Harris.In 1880, Fulford married Mary Wilder White , a socialite from Wisconsin, and...

 (of Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for Pale People

Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for Pale People

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 fame), of Brockville and Mary Wilder White.