William Daum Euler, (July 10, 1875 – July 15, 1961) was a

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parliamentarian. Euler was born in

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, the son of Henry Euler and Catherine Daum. He attended Berlin High School between the years of 1891 and 1893. He then taught in

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and later founded the Euler Business College. Euler married Jean Howd. He was mayor of

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(now Kitchener) from 1914 to 1917. He was first elected to the

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representing the riding of Waterloo North, Ontario. A

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, he held three cabinet positions: Minister of Customs and Excise (1926 to 1927),

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(1927 to 1930), and Minister of Trade and Commerce (1935 to 1940). He served until 1940, when he was appointed to the

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representing the senatorial division of

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. He died in office in 1961 in Kitchener. He is buried in the Mount Hope Cemetery in Kitchener, Ontario. As Senator, he waged the campaign to eliminate the ban on

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in Canada. In 1961 he became the first Chancellor of Waterloo Lutheran University (now

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). There is a Willam Daum Euler

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References

*Brown, H. W., B.A. (1927). "The Kitchener and Waterloo Collegiate and Vocational School: Its History". ''Fifteenth Annual Report of the Waterloo Historical Society'' 15: 268-284.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Euler, William 1875 births 1961 deaths Laurier Liberals Canadian senators from Ontario Canadian university and college chancellors Liberal Party of Canada MPs Liberal Party of Canada senators Mayors of Kitchener, Ontario Members of the House of Commons of Canada from Ontario Members of the King's Privy Council for Canada People from Woolwich, Ontario Burials at Mount Hope Cemetery, Kitchener, Ontario Politicians from the Regional Municipality of Waterloo