Thomas Ashmore Kidd (May 1, 1889 – December 19, 1973) was speaker of the Legislature of

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in 1930–34 and served as

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MLA for Kingston from 1926 to 1940 and Progressive Conservative MP for

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from 1945 to 1949. He was born in Burritt's Rapids, Ontario, the nephew of Edward Kidd, and was educated there and in

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. Kidd was a manufacturer and wholesale merchant. He served in

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with the Royal Regiment of Canada in 1915 and was wounded at

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. In 1920, he married Eva Richardson, the daughter of senator

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. Kidd was a member of Kingston city council from 1922 to 1926 and also served on the Kingston Board of Works. He won the

nomination in Kingston after the incumbent Conservative,

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, resigned from the cabinet of

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in order to protest the government's decision to run for re-election on the platform of repealing the ''

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'' and allowing government controlled liquor sales. Kidd defeated Nickle who ran as a Prohibitionist candidate in the 1926 provincial election. Kidd was re-elected in the 1929 provincial election and served as

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from 1930 until 1934. He resigned from the provincial legislature to run unsuccessfully for the House of Commons of Canada in the 1940 federal election but won on his second attempt in

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. Kidd was defeated in bid for re-election in 1949 and again when he tried to return to politics in 1957. Kidd was also a Grand Master in the

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References

* ''Canadian Parliamentary Guide, 1928'', AL Normandin

External links

* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Kidd, Thomas 1889 births 1973 deaths Speakers of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario MPPs Progressive Conservative Party of Canada MPs Members of the House of Commons of Canada from Ontario

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