Charles Daley

{{Infobox officeholder

| name = Charles Daley

| image =

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| office = Ontario MPP

| term_start = 1943

| term_end = 1963

| predecessor = Archie Haines

| successor = Bob Welch

| constituency = Lincoln

| party = Progressive Conservative

| birth_date = {{Birth date|1890|7|27}}

| birth_place = St. Catharines, Ontario

| death_date = {{death date and age|1976|08|10|1890|7|27}}

| death_place = Toronto, Ontario

| spouse =

| children = 4

| occupation = Carpenter

}}

Charles "Tod" Daley, (July 27, 1890 – August 10, 1976) was a Canadian politician. He served in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1943 to 1963 as a member of the Progressive Conservative Party and was a cabinet minister in the governments of George Drew, Thomas, and Leslie Frost.

Background

Daley was born in St. Catharines in 1890.{{cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JGBLAAAAMAAJ&q=%22Daley,+Hon.+Charles%22++Lincoln+St+Catharines |title=The Canadian Parliamentary Guide |date=2007-10-04 |accessdate=2017-03-04}} He served in the First World War.{{cite news |title=Charles Daley: Lincoln MPP labor minister from '43 to '61 |newspaper=The Globe and Mail |date=August 11, 1976 |page=8}}

Politics

He was elected alderman of St. Catharines in 1935 and later became mayor of the city.

He was elected to the Ontario legislature in the 1943 provincial election in the local southwestern Ontario riding of Lincoln.{{cite news |author=Canadian Press |title=Ontario Election Results |newspaper=The Gazette |date=August 5, 1943 |location=Montreal |page=12 |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=_H4tAAAAIBAJ&dq=rae%20luckock&pg=3097%2C672685}} Two weeks after the election he was appointed to George Drew's Cabinet as Minister of Labour.{{cite news |title=Drew Cabinet takes office; meets today |newspaper=The Globe and Mail |date=August 18, 1943|page=13}}

He served in that role for the next 18 years through three successive premiers. When John Robarts took power in 1961 he was retained in Cabinet as a Minister without portfolio.{{cite news |title=9 Ministers Switch In Cabinet Shuffle |newspaper=The Globe and Mail |date=November 9, 1961 |page=1}} He retired before the 1963 election.{{cite news |title=Ex-Minister Daley Quits As MPP |newspaper=The Globe and Mail |date=May 3, 1963 |page=39}}