Arthur Reaume | |
|---|---|
| Ontario MPP | |
| In office November 22, 1951 – October 16, 1967 | |
| Preceded by | Gordon Bennett Ellis |
| Succeeded by | Dick Ruston |
| Constituency | Essex North |
| 22ndMayor of Windsor | |
| In office 1941–1954 | |
| Preceded by | David Croll |
| Succeeded by | Thomas Brophey |
| Personal details | |
| Born | (1906-11-30)November 30, 1906 Sandwich, Ontario, Canada |
| Died | December 13, 1981(1981-12-13) (aged 75) Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
| Political party | Ontario Liberal Party |
Arthur John Reaume (November 30, 1906 – December 13, 1981) was a Canadian politician.
Reaume was born at Sandwich, Ontario, in 1906.[1]
He was elected to the town council of Sandwich in 1930 and became mayor of Sandwich in 1933. He sat onWindsor city council after Sandwich became part of Windsor. Reaume succeededDavid Croll as Windsor mayor in 1941, becoming the 22ndmayor of the city, and was reelected in 1948. In the municipal election of 1950, it appeared thatThomas Brophey had defeated Reaume by 38 votes but, after a recount, Reaume was declared the winner by 16 votes and served until 1954.[2] Reaume is also Windsor's longest-serving mayor, at 13 years.
He ran as a candidate for theProgressive Conservative Party of Ontario in the1943 election but was defeated by theCCF. He broke with the Conservatives when he supported UAW workers at Ford in their fight for theRand formula.[3]
In the1945 and1948 elections, he ran as aLiberal-Labour candidate, but lost on both attempts. He was elected to theLegislative Assembly of Ontario as aLiberalMember of Provincial Parliament (MPP) in the1951 election. He remained in office until the1967 election.
A pro-labour but otherwise conservative politician, he ran for theOntario Liberal leadership in 1958 but won only 32 votes and was eliminated on the first ballot along withLiberal-Labour MPPAlbert Wren. Reaume withdrew after the first ballot and threw his support toJohn Wintermeyer who came from behind to win on the third ballot.[4] Reaume and Wren had both been expelled from the Liberal caucus in 1957 for attacking the leadership ofFarquhar Oliver but Reaume was readmitted after apologising.[5]
He died at a Toronto hospital in 1981.[6]