Leslie Hill McDorman (January 19, 1879 – May 19, 1966) was a politician in

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, Canada. He served in the

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from 1945 to 1949 as a

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. He was elected to the Manitoba legislature in the 1945 provincial election, representing the constituency of

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. He was born in

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and came to

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around 1901. McDorman was mayor of Brandon from 1944 to 1945. McDorman's won the seat as the result of a local division in the Cooperative Commwealth Federation. Dwight Johnson had previously been elected for Brandon as a CCF candidate in a 1943

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, but was suspended from the party on suspicions of holding

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sympathies. He ran for re-election as an "Independent CCF" candidate, and the local CCF organization fielded a candidate against him. This division in the left allowed McDorman to win a fairly easy victory. He served as a government backbencher for the next four years, supporting the administrations of

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and Douglas Campbell. McDorman did not seek re-election in 1949. He died in

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at the age of 77 and was buried in Brandon.

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1966 deaths Manitoba Liberal Party MLAs 1879 births Mayors of Brandon, Manitoba {{Manitoba-politician-stub