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Robert Desmond Thornberry

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Robert Desmond Thornberry (November 8, 1907 – 1969) was a businessperson and politician in Ontario, Canada. He represented Hamilton Centre in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1943 to 1945 and from 1948 to 1951 as a Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (CCF) member.^[1]^[1]

The son of William Thornberry and Lydia Hall, both natives of Ireland, he cane to Canada in 1921. Thornberry attended technical school in Hamilton. In 1931, he married Violet Con. He was vice-president of a dairy company. Thornberry served on Hamilton city council from 1940 to 1942.^[2]

In 1951, Thornberry introduced a private member's bill to reduce the maximum work week from 48 hours to 40 hours but the Conservative majority voted to delay discussion on the bill until after the end of the current legislature, in effect killing any further action on the bill.^[3]

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1. ^{{cite web |url=http://www.ontla.on.ca/web/members/members_detail.do?locale=en&ID=1918 |title=Robert Desmond Thornberry, MPP |publisher=Legislative Assembly of Ontario}}
2. ^¹{{cite book |title=Canadian Parliamentary Guide |year=1944 |last=Normandin |first=A L}}
3. ^{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2194&dat=19510215&id=wP8uAAAAIBAJ&sjid=nNwFAAAAIBAJ&pg=5453,2562204&hl=en |title=Two Opposition Bills Defeated at Toronto |newspaper=Ottawa Citizen |date=February 15, 1951 |page=14}}

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