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Percy John Rowe

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Profession
  
accountant

Name
  
Percy Rowe

Born
  
November 18, 1893 Bowmanville, Ontario (
1893-11-18
)

Died
  
January 26, 1978(1978-01-26) (aged 84) Lakeview, Ontario

Political party
  
Social Credit Party of Canada

Preceded by
  
Percy Griffith Davies

Succeeded by
  
Joseph Miville Dechene

Percival "Percy" John Rowe (November 18, 1893 – January 26, 1978) was an accountant and a Canadian federal politician. He was born in Bowmanville, Ontario.

Rowe ran for the Canadian House of Commons as a candidate from the Social Credit Party of Canada. He was elected by a comfortable margin defeating 3 other candidates. He would leave the Social Credit party and run for the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation in the 1940 Canadian federal election and be defeated finishing a distant 3rd place by Liberal candidate Joseph Miville Dechene and Social Credit Member of Parliament William Hayhurst who had previously represented the Vegreville riding. He died in Lakeview, Ontario in 1978.

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