Terry David Jones (June 13, 1938 - March 21, 2014) is a former politician in
Ontario
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,
Canada
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. He served in the
Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1975 to 1985 as a member of the
Progressive Conservative Party.
Background
Jones was born in
Toronto
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, and educated at the
University of Toronto
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. He worked for his family building cottages in
Muskoka. Later he established an insurance business in
Streetsville, Ontario
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.
Politics
He was elected to the Ontario legislature in the
1975 provincial election, defeating
New Democratic Party candidate David Busby by 385 votes in
Mississauga North
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This riding was created in 1976 from parts of Halton (electoral dist ...
.
In 1976, Jones chaired a commission which established the provincial drinking age at nineteen.
He defeated Busby again by a greater margin in the
1977 election, and won by a significant majority in
1981
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Jones was a backbench supporter of the
William Davis and
Frank Miller
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governments, and was named Deputy
Speaker
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on October 11, 1983. During his time in office he served as
Parliamentary Assistant
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to several ministers including the Provincial Secretary for Social Development and the Minister of the Treasury and Economics.
The Progressive Conservatives suffered an electoral setback in the
1985 election, and Jones lost his seat to
Liberal
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candidate
Steve Offer by 1,424 votes.
Parliamentary positions
After politics
In 1992, Jones was convicted of fraud related to a property development scheme and sentenced to six months in jail. Jones had set up a land deal and promised investors that large profits would result from the sale of the land. Instead the deal went sour and investors lost $1,010,000. Jones's lawyer contended that his client did not personally profit from the deal.
In 1999, he was ordered to give up his licence to sell insurance. He spent his remaining years working as a consultant and became an amateur painter. He was age 75 when he died.
References
External links
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1938 births
2014 deaths
Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario MPPs