Sidney Arthur Fraleigh (5 February 1931 – 8 May 2023) was a Canadian politician who was a Progressive Conservative member of the

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. Born in

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, Fraleigh was a farmer by career. He was the son of Sidney Anderson Fraleigh and was educated at the

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. In 1953, Fraleigh married Velma Eloise Minielly. He served as a member of the council for Bosanquet Township and was also chairman of the board for the Ontario Pork Producers Marketing Board. Fraleigh won the seat for the

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electoral district in the 1979 federal election but lost there in the 1980 federal election to

Ralph Ferguson Ralph Ferguson (September 13, 1929August 30, 2020) was a Canadian farmer and politician. Ferguson was a farmer in south-western Ontario and co-founder of the Lambton Pork Producers Association. In the late 1950s, he was chairman of the Lambto ...

of the

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. He regained the seat in

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, but lost again to Ferguson in the 1988 federal election. Fraleigh thus served in the 31st and

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s. Fraleigh died on 8 May 2023, at the age of 92.

References

Sources

* ''Canadian Parliamentary Guide, 1987'', PG Normandin

External links

* 1931 births 2023 deaths Members of the House of Commons of Canada from Ontario Progressive Conservative Party of Canada MPs 20th-century members of the House of Commons of Canada {{ProgressiveConservative-Ontario-MP-stub