Charles Lemington Shuttleworth (September 28, 1910 in Minnedosa,

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– April 13, 2006 in Minnedosa,

) was a politician in Manitoba, Canada. He served in the

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as a

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from 1949 to 1959, and was a

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in the government of Douglas Campbell. His father, N.W.P. Shuttleworth, unsuccessfully ran for the Manitoba legislature in the 1927 election as a Progressive. Shuttleworth worked as a farmer before entering political life. He served as reeve of the Rural Municipality of Odanah, and was president of the Manitoba Approved Flock Owners. He was a member of the

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. He was first elected to the Manitoba legislature in the 1949 provincial election, defeating Progressive Conservative E.P. Venables by 241 votes in the rural constituency of Hamiota. He defeated Venables again in the 1953 election, and was appointed to cabinet on September 4, 1953 as Minister of Public Utilities and Power Commissioner. On July 6, 1956, he was also appointed

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. He was responsible for overseeing the Rural Electrification Program. The Liberal-Progressives lost power after the 1958 election, although Shuttleworth was re-elected in the redistributed constituency of Minnedosa. In the 1959 election, he lost the seat to future Premier

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by 357 votes. Shuttleworth campaigned for the

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as a

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in the federal election of 1962. Running in

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, he lost to Progressive Conservative

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by 3,510 votes. He was appointed to the Board of Grain Commissioners in 1965, and became the first chairman of the Board of the Canadian International Grain Institute in 1972. He retired in 1977. In 1981, Shuttleworth received a certificate of merit from the Manitoba Agricultural and Food Science Grads Association. He was named to the Manitoba Agricultural Hall of Fame in 1996. Shuttleworth was married to Charlotte May Sedgwick from 1935 until her death in 1981. He married Mae Johnson in 1995. Shuttleworth's daughter, Elaine Shuttleworth, once ran for the Manitoba legislature as a candidate of the

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. He suffered a stroke in 2000 and died at a long term care home in Minnedosa six years later at the age of 95.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Shuttleworth, Charles 1910 births 2006 deaths Manitoba Liberal Party MLAs Members of the Executive Council of Manitoba People from Minnedosa, Manitoba