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词条 John Reesor Williams
释义

  1. Background

  2. Municipal politics

  3. Provincial politics

     Cabinet 

  4. References

  5. External links

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| name = John Reesor Williams
| image =
| caption =
| office = Ontario MPP
| term_start = 1975
| term_end = 1985
| predecessor = New riding
| successor = Elinor Caplan
| constituency = Oriole
| party = Conservative
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1930|09|09}}
| birth_place = Toronto, Ontario
| death_date =
| death_place =
| profession = Lawyer
| residence =
| spouse = Lorraine Mary (O'Donnell) Williams
| children = 5
}}

John Reesor Williams (born September 9, 1930) is a former politician in Ontario, Canada. He served as a Progressive Conservative member in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1975 to 1985, and was briefly a cabinet minister in the government of Frank Miller.

Background

Williams was born in Toronto, the son of Luella Mae Maud (Reesor) and Thomas John Williams.[1] He was educated at the University of Western Ontario and Osgoode Hall Law School. He worked as a barrister and solicitor before entering political life. Comedian Harland Williams is one of his five children.

His mother was the daughter of George Reesor, a descendant of one of the German families that originally settled Markham, Ontario in 1794.

Municipal politics

Williams was an alderman in North York from 1963 to 1972, and was deputy mayor and Controller of the borough from 1973 to 1974. He also served on the Metro Toronto Council during this period, and was a board member of St. Matthew the Apostle Anglican Church in 1971. From 1973 to 1975, he served on the board of governors for Seneca College.

Provincial politics

He was elected to the Ontario legislature in the 1975 provincial election, defeating Liberal candidate Bob Reid by 239 votes in the North York district of Oriole.[2] He was re-elected with an increased majority in the 1977[3] and 1981 elections,[4] and served as a backbench supporter of the Bill Davis government.

Williams supported Frank Miller to succeed Davis as Premier of Ontario in January 1985,[5] and was appointed as Solicitor-General when Miller became premier on February 8, 1985.[6] His appointment was controversial in some circles. Williams was strongly pro-life, and had previously opposed granting any police protection to Henry Morgentaler's abortion clinic in Toronto.[7]

Miller's government lost several seats in the 1985 election, and was subsequently defeated in the legislature. Williams was personally defeated in Oriole by Liberal candidate Elinor Caplan.[8]

In 2005, veteran legislators Sean Conway and Bob Runciman both named Williams as the most boring speaker they had encountered in the course of their careers. His speaking style is demonstrated in the following quote: "the type of rhetoric from the opposition continues without any factual backups to substantiate those generalizations that have become nothing more than rhetoric and well-worn clichés".[9]

Cabinet

{{s-start}}{{Canadian cabinet member navigational box header |ministry=Bill_Davis}}{{ministry box cabinet posts
| post1preceded = George Taylor
| post1 = Solicitor General
| post1years = 1985 (February–May)
| post1note =
| post1followed = Bud Gregory
}}{{s-end}}

References

1. ^{{cite book |title=Canadian Parliamentary Guide |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vxuKAAAAMAAJ&q=Luella+Mae+Maud+Reesor&dq=Luella+Mae+Maud+Reesor&hl=en&sa=X&ei=zuHEU8-6F4WyyATG64D4Ag&ved=0CBMQ6AEwAA |date=1965 |author=Pierre G. Normandin |page=840}}
2. ^{{cite news |title=Table of vote results for all Ontario ridings |newspaper=The Globe and Mail |date=September 19, 1975 |page=C12}}
3. ^{{cite news |title=Ontario provincial election results riding by riding |newspaper=The Globe and Mail |date=June 10, 1977 |page=D9}}
4. ^{{cite news|author=Canadian Press |title=Election results for Metro Toronto |newspaper=The Windsor Star |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=0NtYAAAAIBAJ&sjid=QlIMAAAAIBAJ&pg=6285%2C1391429 |date=March 20, 1981 |location=Windsor, Ontario |page=22 |accessdate=2014-04-01}}
5. ^{{cite news |title=Rumor mill the enemy in Miller's campaign |last=Cruickshank |first=John |newspaper=The Globe and Mail |date=January 23, 1985 |page=5}}
6. ^{{cite news |title=The Ontario Cabinet |newspaper=The Globe and Mail |date=February 9, 1985 |page=4}}
7. ^{{cite news |title=Both sides in abortion debate planning rallies this week |last=Marotte |first=Bertrand |newspaper=The Globe and Mail |date=February 18, 1985 |page=14}}
8. ^{{cite news |title=Results of vote in Ontario election |newspaper=The Globe and Mail |date=May 3, 1985 |page=13}}
9. ^{{cite news |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20051111132732/http://www.northernlife.ca/editorials.asp?75id15-pn=&view=94204 |archivedate=November 11, 2005 |url=http://www.northernlife.ca/editorials.asp?75id15-pn=&view=94204 |date=September 2005 |title=Winner of most boring speaker is… |author=Eric Dowd |newspaper=Northern Life}}

External links

  • {{OntarioMPPbio|ID=631}}
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