Frank Rickard

Frank Rickard
Member of Parliament
for Durham
In office
October 1935  June 1945
Preceded by Fred Wellington Bowen
Succeeded by Charles Elwood Stephenson
Personal details
Born Wilbert Franklin Rickard
(1884-01-07)7 January 1884
Clarke Township, Ontario
Died 19 January 1975(1975-01-19) (aged 91)
Political party Liberal
Spouse(s) Staples
m. 13 September 1911
Clara E. Moffat
m. 9 September 1936[1]
Profession farmer

Wilbert Franklin (Frank) Rickard (7 January 1884 19 January 1975) was a Liberal party member of the Canadian House of Commons. He was born in Clarke Township, Ontario and became a farmer by career.

Rickard attended public and secondary schools at Newcastle. He served as a regional reeve for Clarke Township, Ontario and in 1933 was warden for Northmberland and Dufferin.[1]

He was first elected to Parliament at the Durham riding in the 1935 general election and re-elected there in 1940. Rickard was defeated by Charles Elwood Stephenson of the Progressive Conservative party in the 1945 election.

References

  1. 1 2 Normandin, A. L. (1941). The Canadian Parliamentary Guide.


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