Farquhar Robert Oliver was a politician

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 in Ontario

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, Canada

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Oliver was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Ontario

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 as a United Farmers of Ontario

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 Member of the Legislative Assembly in the 1926 provincial election

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 at the age of 22.

Oliver was re-elected as a UFO MLA in the 1929 election

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 and was the sole (and last) United Farmers member in the legislature until 1940. In that year, he formally joined the Ontario Liberal Party

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 and the cabinet

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 of Premier

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 Mitchell Hepburn

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 as Minister of Public Works and Welfare after informally supporting the Liberals since 1934. Oliver quit the cabinet in late October 1942, in protest against Hepburn's leadership of the Liberal Party. Hepburn had quit as Premier of Ontario

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 but refused to resign as leader, and appointed Gordon Daniel Conant

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 as the new Premier without consulting the party. Oliver's resignation contributed to a crisis that eventually led to both Hepburn and Conant's resignations and a leadership convention

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 in May 1943. Harry Nixon

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 was elected the party's new leader. Oliver rejoined the cabinet under new Premier Harry Nixon as Deputy Premier, but Nixon's government was short-lived, going down to defeat in the October 1943 election

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Oliver became Liberal leader in 1945 and led the party through the 1948 election

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 that again reduced the Liberals to third place behind the Tories and Co-operative Commonwealth Federation. He resigned the leadership in 1950, and was replaced by Walter Thomson

Walter Thomson

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. However, Thomson was unable to win election to the Legislature, so Oliver remained house leader. Oliver became party leader again from 1954 until 1958, including the 1955 election

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. Despite his experience, he was never able to lead his party to victory. Farquhar Oliver retired from the legislature in 1967, and died in 1989 at the age of 85.

Farquhar Oliver was the nephew of British Columbia Premier John Oliver

John Oliver (politician)

John Oliver was a politician and farmer in British Columbia, Canada.Oliver was involved in local politics when he won a seat in the provincial legislature in the 1900 election, and became leader of the opposition. He lost his seat in the 1909 election...

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External links

• Farquhar Robert Oliver at The Canadian Encyclopedia
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• Parliamentary History

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Preceded by: Mitchell Hepburn Mitchell Hepburn Mitchell Frederick Hepburn was the 11th Premier of Ontario, Canada, from 1934 to 1942. He was the youngest Premier in Ontario history, appointed at age 37....	First leadership (1945-1950)	Followed by: Walter Thomson Walter Thomson Walter Cunningham Thomson was a politician, lawyer and rancher in Ontario, Canada. Thomson first ran for the leadership of the Ontario Liberal Party in 1943 but came in fourth place losing to Harry Nixon...
Preceded by: Walter Thomson Walter Thomson Walter Cunningham Thomson was a politician, lawyer and rancher in Ontario, Canada. Thomson first ran for the leadership of the Ontario Liberal Party in 1943 but came in fourth place losing to Harry Nixon...	Second leadership (1954-1958)	Followed by: John Wintermeyer John Wintermeyer John Joseph Wintermeyer was a politician in Ontario, Canada. Wintermeyer was first elected to the Legislative Assembly of Ontario in the 1955 provincial election, and was chosen leader of the Ontario Liberal Party in 1958....