Frederick Arthur Burr (February 26, 1911 – January 17, 2006) was a politician in

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, Canada. He was a New Democratic member of the

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from 1967 to 1977 who represented the ridings of Sandwich-Riverside and Windsor—Riverside.

Background

Born in Middlesex County, Ontario, to Arthur Edward Burr and Emily Rose Vernon, Burr had a long career as a high school teacher at Walkerville Collegiate Institute where he taught Latin and Greek for 34 years. His son, Dave Burr served one term as the

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. In addition to his son, Burr had two daughters, Sheila and Maureen, and was pre-deceased by his wife, Dorothy.

Politics

Burr ran in the 1945 federal election in the riding of Essex West. He came in third to

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candidate Donald Ferguson Brown. He tried four more times in provincial and federal elections before winning in the 1967 provincial election by 799 votes. In the next provincial election in 1971, he won by 10,000 votes. While his tenure as an MPP was spent in Opposition, he was known as a forward-thinking member, asking questions about solar power and the effects of freon as far back as 1974 and was regarded as one of the first politicians to take up the cause of second-hand tobacco smoke.

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* * Obituary of Fred Burr in the ''Globe and Mail'', 18 April 2006 {{DEFAULTSORT:Burr, Frederick Arthur 1911 births 2006 deaths Ontario New Democratic Party MPPs Politicians from Windsor, Ontario 20th-century members of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario