Английская Википедия:Bill Hartley (politician)

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Шаблон:Infobox officeholder William Leonard Hartley (December 12, 1916[1] – May 4, 2003[2]) was an electrician, insurance salesman and political figure in British Columbia. He represented Yale from 1963 to 1966 and Yale-Lillooet from 1966 to 1975 as a New Democrat.

He was born in Estevan, Saskatchewan, the son of Leonard Hartley and Sarah Ann Lee, both natives of England,[1] and grew up in Clayburn, British Columbia. Hartley settled in Mission, B.C. He was president of the North Fraser Co-operative Association and served on the board of C.U. & C. Health Services.[3] Hartley ran unsuccessfully a number of times as a Co-operative Commonwealth Federation candidate for a seat in federal elections, before he was elected provincially for the New Democratic Party in 1963. He was subsequently re-elected three times. He served in the provincial cabinet as Minister of Public Works, in the New Democratic Party government from 1972 to 1975[4] Hartley was defeated when he ran for re-election in 1975.[5] He retired from the insurance business in 1986.[2]

Hartley help found Co-op Fire and Casualty, later The Co-operators.[2]

In 1955, he married Marianne Martha Mueller a nurse from Lumsden, Saskatchewan.[1] He had three children, Gretchen, Eric and Lisa.

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