Clayton Wesley Hodgson (20 March 1897 – 14 April 1970) was a Progressive Conservative party member of the

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. He was born in

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and became a lumber merchant by career. He was first elected at the

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riding in the

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then re-elected there for successive terms in the

1949 Events January * January 1 – A United Nations-sponsored ceasefire brings an end to the Indo-Pakistani War of 1947. The war results in a stalemate and the division of Kashmir, which still continues as of 2022. * January 2 – Luis ...

1953 Events January * January 6 – The Asian Socialist Conference opens in Rangoon, Burma. * January 12 – Estonian émigrés found a Estonian government-in-exile, government-in-exile in Oslo. * January 14 ** Marshal Josip Broz Tito i ...

1957 1957 ( MCMLVII) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1957th year of the Common Era (CE) and ''Anno Domini'' (AD) designations, the 957th year of the 2nd millennium, the 57th year of the 20th century, and the 8th y ...

1958 Events January * January 1 – The European Economic Community (EEC) comes into being. * January 3 – The West Indies Federation is formed. * January 4 ** Edmund Hillary's Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition completes the third ...

and 1962 federal elections. From August 1957 to February 1958, he was Parliamentary Assistant to the Minister of Public Works then from November 1959 to November 1961, he served as Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Transport. Hodgson died at Haliburton, Ontario aged 73, leaving a wife, four sons and two daughters.

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* 1897 births 1970 deaths Members of the House of Commons of Canada from Ontario People from Kawartha Lakes Progressive Conservative Party of Canada MPs {{ProgressiveConservative-Ontario-MP-stub