Merrill Edwin Barrington (25 February 1920 – 18 December 1965) was a

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and

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. He was elected to the

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in 1958 as a Member of the Progressive Conservative Party for the riding of

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. He was defeated in the elections of

1953 Events January * January 6 – The Asian Socialist Conference opens in Rangoon, Burma. * January 12 – Estonian émigrés found a Estonian government-in-exile, government-in-exile in Oslo. * January 14 ** Marshal Josip Broz Tito ...

1957 Events January * January 1 – The Saarland joins West Germany. * January 3 – Hamilton Watch Company introduces the first electric watch. * January 5 – South African player Russell Endean becomes the first batsman to be Dismissal (cricke ...

and

1962 The year saw the Cuban Missile Crisis, which is often considered the closest the world came to a Nuclear warfare, nuclear confrontation during the Cold War. Events January * January 1 – Samoa, Western Samoa becomes independent from Ne ...

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* 1920 births 1965 deaths Members of the House of Commons of Canada from Quebec Progressive Conservative Party of Canada MPs Politicians from Montérégie Canadian accountants Anglophone Quebec people 20th-century members of the House of Commons of Canada {{ProgressiveConservative-Quebec-MP-stub