John Alfred (Jack) Irvine (26 January 1912 – 20 July 1996) was a Progressive Conservative party member of the

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. He was a merchant by career. Irvine ran Irvine Appliances. Irvine was born at

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. He married Doris Seeley in 1937, and moved to

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in 1950. He entered municipal politics in 1959, becoming an alderman for the

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city government. Irvine left local politics in 1963 and was elected to the House of Commons at the

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riding in the 1963 general election, then re-elected there in the

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. After electoral district boundary changes in the late 1960s, Irvine campaigned at

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for the 1968 federal election but lost to

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of the

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. Irvine died at a nursing home in

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in July 1996.

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Linked Parliamentary Data - John Alfred Irvine - Parliamentary Career and Most Recent Speeches
1912 births 1996 deaths Members of the House of Commons of Canada from Ontario Progressive Conservative Party of Canada MPs {{ProgressiveConservative-Ontario-MP-stub