Frank Rickard

{{Short description|Canadian politician}}

{{Use Canadian English|date=September 2021}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=September 2021}}

{{Infobox officeholder

| name=Frank Rickard

| birthname=Wilbert Franklin Rickard

| image=File:Wilbert Franklin Rickard 1940 portrait.jpg

| imagesize=150px

| caption= Rickard, c. 1940

| birth_date={{birth date|df=yes|1884|1|7}}

| birth_place=Clarke Township, Ontario, Canada

| death_date={{death date and age|df=y|1975|1|19|1884|1|7}}

| death_place=

| spouse=Staples
m. 13 September 1911
Clara E. Moffat
m. 9 September 1936{{cite book | title=The Canadian Parliamentary Guide | year=1941 | first=A. L. | last=Normandin }}

| residence=

| riding=Durham

| predecessor=Fred Wellington Bowen

| successor=Charles Elwood Stephenson

| term_start=October 1935

| term_end=June 1945

| profession=Farmer

| party=Liberal

| footnotes=

| religion=

| website=

}}

Wilbert Franklin Rickard (7 January 1884 – 19 January 1975) was a Liberal party member of the House of Commons of Canada. He was born in Clarke Township, Ontario and became a farmer by career.

Rickard attended public and secondary schools at Newcastle. He served as a regional reeve for Clarke Township, Ontario and in 1933 was warden for Northumberland and Dufferin.

He was first elected to Parliament at the Durham riding in the 1935 general election and re-elected there in 1940. Rickard was defeated by Charles Elwood Stephenson of the Progressive Conservative party in the 1945 election.

Electoral record

{{1945 Canadian federal election/Durham}}

{{1940 Canadian federal election/Durham}}

{{1935 Canadian federal election/Durham}}

References