Lorne Hugh Shantz is a former politician in British Columbia

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, Canada. He represented North Okanagan

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 in the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia

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 from 1952 to 1963 as a Social Credit

British Columbia Social Credit Party

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 member.

He was born in Alsask, Saskatchewan

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, the son of Jacob Y. Shantz and Emma Fern Lougheed, and was educated in Didsbury

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 and Calgary

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. Before entering politics, Shantz was an insurance agent. In 1941, he married Genevieve E. Ansley. He ran unsuccessfully for a seat in the British Columbia assembly in 1949. Shantz lived in Langley

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. He was speaker for the assembly

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from 1958 to 1963. Mr Shantz died October 30, 1999 in Phoenix Arizona. He left a wife and 5 children.