Preceded by Elmer Forbes Profession surgeon, physician Succeeded by Laverne Lewycky | Name Gordon Ritchie Resigned 1980 Role Member of Parliament | |
Full Name William Gordon Ritchie Born 27 September 1918
Dauphin, Manitoba ( 1918-09-27 ) Political party Progressive Conservative Died November 20, 1998, Dauphin, Canada Party Progressive Conservative Party of Canada | ||
Alma mater University of St Andrews | ||
William Gordon Ritchie (27 September 1918 – 20 November 1998) was a Progressive Conservative party member of the House of Commons of Canada. He studied MB ChB medicine at the University of St Andrews School of Medicine. He was a surgeon and physician by career.
Ritchie represented the Dauphin electoral district where he won office in the 1968 federal election. He was re-elected in 1972, 1974 and 1979. After serving successive terms from the 28th to the 31st Canadian Parliaments, Ritchie left federal politics in 1980 and did not campaign in that year's national elections.
Ritchie also made one early unsuccessful attempt to win the Dauphin seat in the 1957 federal election.
He died in 1998 at Dauphin.
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