Bill Newman (politician)
{{short description|Canadian politician}}
{{Use Canadian English|date=January 2023}}
{{distinguish|text=Ontario politician William Newman (1873 – 1953)}}
{{Infobox officeholder
| name = Bill Newman
| image =
| office1 = Ontario MPP
| term_start1 = 1977
| term_end1 = 1981
| predecessor1 = New riding
| successor1 = Ross Stevenson
| constituency1 = Durham—York
| term_start2 = 1975
| term_end2 = 1977
| predecessor2 = New riding
| successor2 = Riding abolished
| constituency2 = Durham North
| term_start3 = 1967
| term_end3 = 1975
| predecessor3 = New riding
| successor3 = Riding abolished
| constituency3 = Ontario South
| party = Progressive Conservative
| birth_date = 1928
| birth_place = Toronto, Ontario
| death_date = {{death date and given age|1988|10|12|60}}
| death_place = Ajax, Ontario
| occupation = Farmer
| spouse = Molly Mitchell
| children = 3
}}
William Gould Newman (1928 – October 12, 1988) was a politician from Ontario, Canada. He was a Progressive Conservative member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1967 to 1981. He served as a cabinet minister in the government of Bill Davis.
Background
Born in Toronto, Ontario, the son of Harry and Margaret Newman, Newman received his degree from the Ontario Agricultural College in Guelph. He worked as a farmer in the Pickering area. He was married to Molly Mitchell with whom he had three children.{{cite web|url=http://www.pada.ca/books/page/?id=628&page=171&view=text |title=William Newman Obituary |publisher=Stouffville Times |date=October 1988 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20141104212213/http://www.pada.ca/books/page/?id=628&page=171&view=text |archivedate=2014-11-04 }}
Politics
Newman started as a councillor for Pickering Township and eventually became reeve of Ontario County.{{cite news |title=Pickering-area farmer held posts in Davis government |newspaper=The Globe and Mail |date=October 14, 1988 |page=A16}}
In 1967, he ran as the Progressive Conservative candidate in the new riding of Ontario South. He defeated New Democrat candidate Tom Edwards by 1,240 votes.{{cite news |author=Canadian Press |title=Tories win, but... |newspaper=The Windsor Star |date=October 18, 1967 |location=Windsor, Ontario |page=B2 |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=TDM_AAAAIBAJ&sjid=VVEMAAAAIBAJ&pg=3673%2C2835192}} He was re-elected in 1971.{{cite news |title=Riding-by-riding returns in provincial election |newspaper=The Globe and Mail |date=October 23, 1971 |page=10}} In 1975 he was re-elected in the redistributed riding of Durham North and in 1977 he was re-elected in the riding of Durham—York.{{cite news |title=Table of vote results for all Ontario ridings |newspaper=The Globe and Mail |date=September 19, 1975 |page=C12}}{{cite news |title=Ontario provincial election results riding by riding |newspaper=The Globe and Mail |date=June 10, 1977 |page=D9}}
In February 1974 he was appointed as Minister of Environment.{{cite news |title=The new cabinet lines up like this |last=Dunlop |first=Marilyn |newspaper=The Toronto Star |date=February 27, 1974 |page=A3}} During his time as Environment Minister he was criticized for failing to ban non-returnable bottles and for refusing to place restrictions on the use of snowmobiles. In October 1975, he was appointed as Minister of Agriculture and Food.{{cite news |title=Davis rebuffs Rhodes after appointing him housing portfolio |newspaper=The Globe and Mail |date=October 8, 1975 |pages=1, 2}} In this capacity Newman was responsible for the creation of the Foodland Ontario program, which continues to today, designed to promote the sale of Ontario-grown agricultural products.{{cite news |title=Food promotion Agriculture Ministry to be reorganized |newspaper=The Globe and Mail |date=September 8, 1978 |page=5}}
He resigned from Cabinet in 1979 due to high blood pressure and did not run in 1981.
=Cabinet positions=
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{{ministry box cabinet posts
| post2preceded = Bill Stewart
| post2 = Minister of Agriculture and Food
| post2years = 1975–1979
| post2note =
| post2followed = Lorne Henderson
| post1preceded = James Auld
| post1 = Minister of Environment
| post1years = 1974–1975
| post1note =
| post1followed = George Kerr
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Later life
In 1981, he was appointed to the board of the LCBO. He was also a member of a committee appointed to study the best use of the Pickering Airport lands. A supporter of a wide range of community groups, Newman had a particularly strong association with the Ajax-Pickering Hospital and St. Paul's Church-On-The-Hill, Dunbarton.
Newman died October 12, 1988, at Ajax-Pickering Hospital following an illness of almost two years. He was 60.
References
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External links
- {{Ontario MPP biography|id=william-gould-newman}}
{{Davis Ministry}}
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Category:Members of the Executive Council of Ontario
Category:People from Pickering, Ontario
Category:Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario MPPs
Category:20th-century members of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario