Samuel Edward Burch (August 1, 1889 – March 4, 1974) was a politician in
Manitoba,
Canada. He served in the
Legislative Assembly of Manitoba as a
Liberal-Progressive from 1949 to 1958.
The son of L. R. Burch and Jane Ann McRae, Burch was born in
Carberry and educated at Brucefield School in Manitoba.
He was first elected to the Manitoba legislature in the
1949 election in the constituency of
Norfolk—Beautiful Plains
Norfolk—Beautiful Plains is a former provincial electoral division in Manitoba, Canada. It was created for the 1949 provincial election by a merger of the Norfolk and Beautiful Plains constituencies, and eliminated with the 1958 provincial ...
, defeating his
Progressive Conservative opponent by 633 votes. He was re-elected by a greater margin in the
1953 provincial election.
Burch served as a backbench supporter of
Douglas Campbell's government during his time in the legislature.
He was married twice: first to Agnes Mabel Mann in 1912 and then to Lavina Jane Campbell in 1934.
The Liberal-Progressives were defeated in the
1958 election, and Burch was defeated by Progressive Conservative candidate
Marcel Boulic
Marcel Boulic (January 15, 1916 – September 22, 1959) was a politician in Manitoba, Canada. He served in the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba as a Progressive Conservative from 1958 to 1959, and was a cabinet minister in the government of ...
in the redistributed constituency of
Cypress
Cypress is a common name for various coniferous trees or shrubs of northern temperate regions that belong to the family Cupressaceae. The word ''cypress'' is derived from Old French ''cipres'', which was imported from Latin ''cypressus'', the ...
.
References
1889 births
1974 deaths
Manitoba Liberal Party MLAs
People from Carberry, Manitoba
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