Randolph Harding (September 17, 1914 – March 3, 1996) was a
Canadian
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politician
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.
Biography
Born in
Silverton, British Columbia
Silverton is a village about south of New Denver in the West Kootenay region of southeastern British Columbia. The former steamboat landing is at the mouth of Silverton Creek on the eastern shore of Slocan Lake. The locality, on BC Highway 6 a ...
, Harding was a teacher and a member of the Silverton municipal council. He was elected as the
Co-operative Commonwealth Federation candidate to the
Legislative Assembly of British Columbia representing
Kaslo-Slocan Kaslo-Slocan was the name of a provincial electoral district in the Canadian province of British Columbia centred on the town of Kaslo on Kootenay Lake as well as the mining towns of the "Silvery Slocan". The riding first appeared in the 1924 el ...
in 1945, and was re-elected in 1949, 1952, 1953, 1956, 1960, 1963 and 1966.
He was elected to the
House of Commons of Canada in the
1968 federal election for the
British Columbia
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riding of
Kootenay West. A
New Democrat
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, he was re-elected in
1972
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and was defeated in
1974.
After leaving federal politics, Harding served as mayor of Silverton and received a long service award from the Union of British Columbia Municipalities.
Harding served in the
Canadian Army
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during
World War II
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.
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1914 births
1996 deaths
British Columbia Co-operative Commonwealth Federation MLAs
20th-century Canadian politicians
Members of the House of Commons of Canada from British Columbia
New Democratic Party MPs
Mayors of places in British Columbia
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