Allan Edward Reuter (August 9, 1914 – December 31, 1982) was a

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politician and

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in the 1970s. The eldest of six children, Reuter was born in

Preston, Ontario Preston is a community in Cambridge, Ontario, Canada in the Regional Municipality of Waterloo, Ontario. Prior to 1973 it was an independent town, incorporated in 1915, but amalgamation with the town of Hespeler, Ontario, the city of Galt, Onta ...

. His father, Stanley was a wood pattern maker. Reuter dropped out of

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at the age of sixteen in order to help support his family by taking a job as an office boy at the Savage Shoe Company. He was office manager when he joined the

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in 1943. Discharged from the service at the end of

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he opened a practice as an accountant and trustee-in-bankruptcy. Reuter was elected to the Preston town council in 1959 but resigned in 1961 in protest of the method in which the reeve was chosen. He returned in 1962 as

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and then ran for and was elected to the

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as the Progressive Conservative MPP for Waterloo South in the 1963 provincial election and was re-elected in

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and

1971 * The year 1971 had three partial solar eclipses (Solar eclipse of February 25, 1971, February 25, Solar eclipse of July 22, 1971, July 22 and Solar eclipse of August 20, 1971, August 20) and two total lunar eclipses (February 1971 lunar eclip ...

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John Robarts John Parmenter Robarts (January 11, 1917 – October 18, 1982) was a Canadian lawyer and politician who served as the 17th premier of Ontario from 1961 to 1971. He was a member of the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario. Early life Roba ...

appointed Reuter as Deputy Speaker and Chairman of the Committee of the Whole House in 1968. In 1971, he was appointed Speaker by Premier

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. He resigned as Speaker in October 1974 due to poor health and did not run in the 1975 provincial election. In 1997, he was named to the

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Hall of Fame. He died in Cambridge Memorial Hospital at the age of 68.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Reuter, Allan 1914 births 1982 deaths 20th-century mayors of places in Ontario Politicians from Cambridge, Ontario Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario MPPs Speakers of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario Canadian people of German descent 20th-century members of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario