Walter Cunningham Thomson (December 21,1895 - April 27, 1964) was a politician, lawyer and rancher in Ontario

Ontario

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, Canada

Canada

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. Thomson first ran for the leadership of the Ontario Liberal Party

Ontario Liberal Party

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 in 1943 but came in fourth place losing to Harry Nixon

Harry Nixon

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. He was first elected to the Canadian House of Commons

Canadian House of Commons

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 in the 1949 federal election

Canadian federal election, 1949

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.

In 1950, he left federal politics and ran again for the leadership of the Ontario Liberal Party

Ontario Liberal Party

The Ontario Liberal Party is a provincial political party in the province of Ontario, Canada. It has formed the Government of Ontario since the provincial election of 2003. The party is ideologically aligned with the Liberal Party of Canada but the two parties are organizationally independent and...

 and won, defeating social reformer Harry Cassidy

Harry Cassidy

Harry Cassidy was a Canadian academic, social reformer, civil servant and, briefly, a politician.Cassidy was a pioneer in the field of social work. He was the founding dean of the School of Social Welfare at University of California, Berkeley in the early 1940s before resigning to work for the...

. In the 1951 Ontario provincial election

Ontario general election, 1951

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, he failed to win election to the Legislative Assembly of Ontario

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, and the Liberals lost six of the 13 seats they had previously held. He remained leader of the party for another three years due to its state of disorganization, and was replaced by Farquhar Oliver

Farquhar Oliver

Farquhar Robert Oliver was a politician in Ontario, Canada.Oliver was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Ontario as a United Farmers of Ontario Member of the Legislative Assembly in the 1926 provincial election at the age of 22.Oliver was re-elected as a UFO MLA in the 1929 election and was...

 in 1954.

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