Henry Philip Mang (11 December 1897 – 30 March 1987) was a
Liberal party
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member of the
House of Commons of Canada. He was born in
Edenwold, Northwest Territories, which is now in Saskatchewan.
Mang trained in Toronto at the Royal College of Dentistry at the
University of Toronto
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where he also took a one-year honours course in Philosophy, English and History. He participated in
World War I
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under the
Royal Flying Corps. Eventually, his jobs included farming and teaching and became a school principal.
Between 1934 and 1938, Mang was a Liberal member of the
Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan
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for the
Lumsden riding.
He was first elected to Parliament at the
Qu'Appelle riding in the
1953 general election then after one term was defeated by
Alvin Hamilton
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of the
Progressive Conservative party in the
1957 election.
Archives
There is a Henry Mang
fonds
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at
Library and Archives Canada.
Archival reference number is R5818.
Electoral record
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1897 births
1987 deaths
Canadian farmers
Canadian military personnel of World War I
Liberal Party of Canada MPs
Members of the House of Commons of Canada from Saskatchewan
Saskatchewan Liberal Party MLAs
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