Henry George Lackner (December 25, 1851 – December 4, 1925) was an

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medical doctor and political figure. He represented

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in the

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as a Conservative member in 1898 and again from 1903 to 1912. He was born in Hawkesville, Canada West, the son of William Lackner, a

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immigrant. He was educated in

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and taught school for four years before going on to study at the Toronto School of Medicine. Lackner was licensed as a physician in 1876 and set up practice in Berlin (later Kitchener). In 1886, he was elected mayor and was reelected the following year and again in 1893. Lackner also served as medical health officer for Berlin. In 1880, he married Helen A. Mackie. He was elected to the provincial assembly in 1898 but unseated after an appeal and did not run in the by-election that followed; he later served four terms in the assembly. He resigned his seat in 1912 when he was named sheriff for

; he served in that post until his death in 1925. He was buried at Mount Hope Cemetery in Kitchener.

References

* ''Canadian Parliamentary Guide, 1910'', EJ Chambers

External links

Member's parliamentary history for the Legislative Assembly of Ontario''The Canadian album : Men of Canada; or, Success by example ...'', W Cochrane (1891)''A History of Kitchener, Ontario'', WV Uttley (1937)
{{DEFAULTSORT:Lackner, Henry George 1851 births 1925 deaths Mayors of Kitchener, Ontario Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario MPPs Burials at Mount Hope Cemetery, Kitchener, Ontario