Bill Grummett

Bill Grummett
Member of Provincial Parliament
In office
1943–1955
Preceded by Charles Vincent Gallagher
Succeeded by Wilf Spooner
Constituency Cochrane South
Personal details
Born (1891-01-08)January 8, 1891
Osprey Township, Ontario
Died 1967 (aged 7576)
Orangeville, Ontario
Political party Ontario CCF
Residence Iroquois Falls, Ontario
Occupation Lawyer
Religion Anglican

William John (Bill) Grummett (January 8, 1891 – 1967) was a Canadian politician.[1] He represented the electoral district of Cochrane South in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1943 to 1955 as a member of the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (CCF).

Grummett was the only CCF MPP to survive both the 1945 and the 1951 provincial elections, which saw most CCFers defeated, including party leader Ted Jolliffe.

He was the CCF's House Leader and led the two person caucus in the legislature from 1951, following Jolliffe's defeat, until new leader Donald C. Macdonald entered the legislature in the 1955.[2]

Grummett was defeated in the 1955 general election by Ontario Progressive Conservative Party candidate Wilf Spooner, who was mayor of Timmins, Ontario, when the Liberals failed to field a candidate allowing "old party votes" to coalesce around Spooner.[3]

The son of a farmer in Maxwell, Ontario, just south of Collingwood, Grummett was the first lawyer in Iroquois Falls-Ansonville, having attended law school in Toronto, Ontario. He and his wife Marie raised their five children in Iroquois Falls, Ontario.

He had fought in World War I as an officer in the British Army where he saw action in the Mesopotamian campaign. While there he contracted malaria which affected him for the rest of his life. He died in 1967.

References

  1. Macdonald, Donald C. (1998). The Happy Warrior: Political Memoirs. Dundurn Press Ltd. p. 56. ISBN 978-1-55002-307-7.
  2. Macdonald, Donald C. (1998). The Happy Warrior: Political Memoirs. Dundurn Press Ltd. pp. 60, 82. ISBN 978-1-55002-307-7.

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