Robert William Macaulay was a Canadian

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 politician.

Robert William Macaulay was first elected to the Legislative Assembly of Ontario

Legislative Assembly of Ontario

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 as the Progressive Conservative

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 Member of Provincial Parliament (MPP) for the Toronto

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 riding

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 of Riverdale in the 1951 Ontario election

Ontario general election, 1951

The Ontario general election of 1951 was held on November 22, 1951, to elect the 90 members of the 24th Legislative Assembly of Ontario of the Province of Ontario, Canada....

. In 1958, Premier of Ontario

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 Leslie Frost

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 appointed him to cabinet

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 as minister without portfolio

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 and promoted him to Minister of Energy Resources in 1959.

When Frost retired, Macaulay ran to succeed him in the 1961 Progressive Conservative leadership convention

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 finishing third on the fifth ballot. The victor, John Robarts

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, made Macaulay his Minister of Economics and Development. Macaulay retained his seat in the 1963 Ontario election

Ontario general election, 1963

The Ontario general election of 1963 was held on September 25, 1963, to elect the 108 members of the 27th Legislative Assembly of Ontario of the Province of Ontario, Canada....

, but was dropped from cabinet shortly afterwards. He remained in the legislature until May 1964 when he resigned his seat and returned to private life.

External links

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