Alonzo Hyndman

{{Short description|Canadian politician (1890–1940)}}

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| name=Alonzo Hyndman

| birthname=Alonzo Bowen Hyndman

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| birth_date={{birth date|df=yes|1890|7|28}}

| birth_place=South Mountain, Ontario, Canada

| death_date={{death date and age|1940|4|9|1890|7|28|df=yes}}

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| spouse=Johnson
m. 29 August 1916{{cite book | title=The Canadian Parliamentary Guide | year=1940 | first=A. L. | last=Normandin }}

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| riding=Carleton

| predecessor=William Foster Garland

| successor=George Russell Boucher

| term_start=October 1935

| term_end=January 1940

| profession=physician

| party=Conservative
National Government

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Alonzo Bowen Hyndman (28 July 1890 – 9 April 1940) was a Canadian physician and politician. Hyndman was a Conservative and National Government member of the House of Commons of Canada. He was born in South Mountain, Ontario and became a physician by career.

He attended high school in Kemptville, Ontario, then Smiths Falls Collegiate. He studied at McGill University in Montreal where he attained his medical degree (MDCM) in 1915, then established a medical practice at Carp.{{cite book | url=https://archive.org/stream/1922publishedont00colluoft/1922publishedont00colluoft_djvu.txt | title=Ontario Medical Register | publisher=College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario | year=1922 | accessdate=14 August 2009 }}

Hyndman was first elected to Parliament at Ontario's Carleton riding in the 1935 general election and re-elected there under the National Government party banner in 1940. Hyndman died suddenly on 9 April 1940, two weeks after the general election, before he was due to be sworn in for the 19th Canadian Parliament.{{cite news | title=Dr. A. Hyndman M.P.-Elect Dies | author=The Canadian Press | author-link=The Canadian Press | work=The Globe and Mail | date=10 April 1940 | page=11 }}

Electoral record

{{1940 Canadian federal election/Carleton}}

{{1935 Canadian federal election/Carleton}}

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