Robert McCubbin (16 June 1902 – 28 February 1975) was a Liberal party member of the

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. He was born in Springbank, Ontario and became a farmer by career. McCubbin was a councillor for East Williams Township from 1924 to 1926, becoming the municipality's Reeve between 1927 and 1930. He also served as Reeve again in 1939. He was first elected at the Middlesex West riding in the 1940 general election and re-elected there in

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1949 Events January * January 1 – A United Nations-sponsored ceasefire brings an end to the Indo-Pakistani War of 1947. The war results in a stalemate and the division of Kashmir, which still continues as of 2022. * January 2 – Luis ...

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1953 Events January * January 6 – The Asian Socialist Conference opens in Rangoon, Burma. * January 12 – Estonian émigrés found a Estonian government-in-exile, government-in-exile in Oslo. * January 14 ** Marshal Josip Broz Tito i ...

. McCubbin was defeated by William Howell Arthur Thomas of the Progressive Conservative party in the 1957 election. Robert McCubbin was inducted into the Middlesex County Hall of Fame in 2008, which was accepted by his three nephews: Bruce, Paul and Ronald McCubbin.

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* 1902 births 1975 deaths 20th-century Canadian farmers Liberal Party of Canada MPs Members of the House of Commons of Canada from Ontario Mayors of places in Ontario {{Liberal-Ontario-MP-stub