Park Arthur Manross was a Progressive Conservative party

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 member of the Canadian House of Commons

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. He was born in United States

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 and became an advertising consultant, industrialist and sales and marketing consultant by career.

Manross was born in Pennsylvania

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, United States and served in the military in World War I

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. He moved to London to found the Ruggles Motor Truck Company then acquired the assets of soft drink firm National Dry, developing this into a successful business. He also established the Wishing Well Products company.

He was first elected to Parliament at the London

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 riding in the 1945 general election

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 then defeated at the 1949 election

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 by Alexander Haley Jeffery

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 of the Liberal party

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.

Manross died in London, Ontario at Victoria Hospital

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 on the afternoon of 24 January 1951, leaving his wife.

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