William Leo Jordan (December 29, 1929 – February 15, 2015) was a politician in Ontario,

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. He was a Progressive Conservative member of the

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from 1990 to 1999.

Background

Jordan studied Public Administration at

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. He worked for thirty-nine years at

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, in the fields of operations, customer service, property and marketing. He was also a beef farmer, and served for a time as reeve of Montague Township and a member of the

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council. He died on February 15, 2015.

Politics

He was elected to the Ontario legislature in the 1990 provincial election, defeating Liberal Guin Persaud by about 1,500 votes in the riding of Lanark—Renfrew. This election was won by the

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, and Jordan sat on the opposition benches for the next five years. The PC party won the 1995 provincial election, in which Jordan defeated his Liberal opponent by more than 10,000 votes. In 1997 he was appointed as

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to the Minister of Economic Development, Trade and Tourism. In 1996, the Harris government reduced the number of provincial ridings from 130 to 103. This meant that a number of sitting Members of Provincial Parliament MPPs had to compete against one another for re-election. Jordan ran against veteran Liberal MPP

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in the new riding of Renfrew—Nipissing—Pembroke in the 1999 provincial election, and lost by almost 6,000 votes. In 2000, Jordan sought the federal

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nomination in Lanark—Carleton, but lost to Scott Reid.

Personal life

His son John Jordan was elected MPP for

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in the 2022 provincial election.

Electoral record (partial)

References

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Jordan, Leo 2015 deaths Carleton University alumni Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario MPPs 1929 births People from Almonte, Ontario 20th-century mayors of places in Ontario 20th-century members of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario