James Albert Creighton (November 18, 1905 – May 29, 1990) was an

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player and politician from Brandon,

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. Creighton played eleven games in the

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with the Detroit Falcons in 1931, scoring one goal and receiving one minor penalty. He was traded to the

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in December 1931, but never played for the team. He later worked in the IHL and the Can-Am Leagues. Creighton became a professional hockey referee after retiring as a player, and later worked as a general insurance salesman. He served as an

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in Brandon in 1946, 1948 and 1949, and was

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of the city from 1952 to 1955 and from 1958 to 1961. Creighton won the

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nomination for Brandon City in the 1953 provincial election, defeating W.A. Wood and J.C. MacDonald at a contested meeting. He lost to Progressive Conservative candidate Reginald Lissaman in the general election, receiving 3,063 votes (40.13%) on the first count and losing on the second. Provincial elections in Manitoba were conducted by the

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in this period. Later in the same year, Creighton ran for the

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in the 1953 federal election as a Liberal candidate in

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. He received 8,456 votes, and finished second to Progressive Conservative Walter Dinsdale. He ran for the Manitoba legislature a second time in the

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, and lost to Lissaman again. He suffered from

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in his later years, and was eventually confined to a nursing home prior to his death in 1990.

Career statistics

Regular season and playoffs

References

External links

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LostHockey.com obituaries
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