Clayton Wesley Hodgson (20 March 1897 - 14 April 1970) was a Progressive Conservative party

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 member of the Canadian House of Commons

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. He was born in Burnt River, Ontario

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 and became a lumber merchant by career.

He was first elected at the Victoria

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 riding in the 1945 general election

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 then re-elected there for successive terms in the 1949

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, 1953

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, 1957

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, 1958

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 and 1962 federal elections

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From August 1957 to February 1958, he was Parliamentary Assistant to the Minister of Public Works then from November 1959 to November 1961, he served as Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Transport.

Hodgson died at Haliburton, Ontario aged 73, leaving a wife, three sons and a daughter.

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