John Horace Dickey (4 September 1914 – 27 April 1996) was a
Liberal party member of the
House of Commons of Canada
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. He was a barrister, executive and lawyer by career.
He was first elected to Parliament at the
Halifax riding in a
by-election
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on 14 July 1947 which was called after the death of
William Chisholm MacDonald, one of the riding's Liberal incumbents. Since Halifax riding elected two members to the House of Commons at that time, Dickey joined the other incumbent, fellow Liberal
Gordon Benjamin Isnor. Both Dickey and Isnor were re-elected in the
1949 election. Isnor was appointed to the
Senate
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in May 1950 and was joined by another Liberal,
Samuel Rosborough Balcom, following a by-election the following month. Both Dickey and Balcom were re-elected to a full term in Parliament in the
1953 election, but were defeated in the
1957 federal election by the two
Progressive Conservative party candidates
Robert McCleave
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and
Edmund L. Morris. In the
1958 election, Dickey was joined by Leonard Kitz in an unsuccessful attempt to win back the riding for the Liberals. Dickey died in 1996 aged 81.
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1914 births
1996 deaths
20th-century Canadian lawyers
Lawyers in Nova Scotia
Liberal Party of Canada MPs
Members of the House of Commons of Canada from Nova Scotia
Politicians from Edmonton
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