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briefly in 1952 from the electoral district of Similkameen, a member of the

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party. He later resigned his seat in order for then-unelected finance minister

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to run for a seat in the legislature. At the time of his initial election, he was a minister, and the pastor at the Osoyoos Pentecostal Church in

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. He later worked in

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following his resignation. He died in 1987 following a cerebral hemorrhage.

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