Education Queen's University Succeeded by Doug Lewis | Name Philip Rynard Resigned 1968 Role Physician | |
Party Progressive Conservative Party of Canada | ||
Philip Bernard Rynard (25 June 1897 – 20 November 1980) was a Canadian physician, surgeon, and politician.
Born in Udora, Ontario, he received his medical education at Queen's University. He was a Medical Health Officer for the province of Ontario and practiced medicine in Orillia.
He first ran unsuccessfully for the Canadian House of Commons in the 1953 federal election for the riding of Simcoe East. A Progressive Conservative, he was elected in the 1957 election. He was re-elected in 1958, 1962, 1963, 1965, 1968, 1972, and 1974. He was the physician to Prime Minister John Diefenbaker.
Rynard suffered a stroke in February 1980. He died in Orillia that November.
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