Leopold Macaulay was a Canadian

Canada

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 politician

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 and lawyer

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. Born in Peterborough, Ontario, Macaulay

Macaulay was a Conservative

Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario

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 member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario

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. He was first elected as Member of the Legislative Assembly

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 (MLA) for the Toronto

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 area riding

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 of York South in 1926. He was brought into the cabinet

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 as Provincial Secretary

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 and Registrar in September 1930 in the last few weeks of the administration of Ontario Premier

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 George Howard Ferguson. He was retained in that position when Ferguson's successor, George Henry formed his cabinet in December.

Macaulay went on to serve as Minister of Highways from 1931 to 1934, and concurrently served as Minister of Public Works for the last months before the defeat of the Henry government by Mitchell Hepburn

Mitchell Hepburn

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's Ontario Liberal Party

Ontario Liberal Party

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 in the 1934 Ontario election

Ontario general election, 1934

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Macaulay kept his seat through the election and, in 1936, he was a candidate in the Ontario Conservative leadership convention

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 placing fourth. He remained in the legislature until losing his seat in the 1943 Ontario election

Ontario general election, 1943

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 to Ontario Co-operative Commonwealth Federation

Ontario New Democratic Party

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 leader Ted Jolliffe

Ted Jolliffe

Edward Bigelow "Ted" Jolliffe, QC was a Canadian social democratic politician and lawyer from Ontario. He was the first leader of the Ontario section of the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation and leader of the Official Opposition in the Ontario Legislature during the 1940s and 1950s...

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He also served on the Board of Regents of Victoria University

Victoria University in the University of Toronto

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, University of Toronto

University of Toronto

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 from 1932 to 1972, serving as chair from 1951 to 1958.

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