Gordon Howlett Dean
{{short description|Canadian politician}}
{{Use Canadian English|date=January 2023}}
{{Infobox officeholder
| name = Gordon Dean
| image =
| caption =
| office = Ontario MPP
| term_start = 1981
| term_end = 1987
| predecessor = Colin Isaacs
| successor = Riding abolished
| constituency = Wentworth
| party = Progressive Conservative
| birth_date = {{birth date|1922|07|23}}
| birth_place = Fruitland, Ontario
| death_date = {{death date and age|2008|04|19|1922|07|23}}
| death_place = London, Ontario
| profession = Farmer
| spouse = Mary
| children = 3
}}
Gordon Howlett Dean (July 23, 1922 – April 19, 2008) was a politician in Ontario, Canada. He was a Progressive Conservative member in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1981 to 1987 and was a cabinet minister in the governments of Bill Davis and Frank Miller.
Background
Dean was born in Fruitland, Ontario and educated at McMaster University in Hamilton where he received his Masters of Science degree. He worked as a fruit farmer, but he worked, for a short period of time, in Chalk River at the AECL facility. Married for 58 years, he and his wife, Mary, had three daughters.
Politics
He was reeve and deputy reeve of Saltfleet from 1965 to 1973, a warden in Wentworth County in 1972, and mayor of Stoney Creek from 1974 to 1980. Dean served as president of the Association of Municipalities of Ontario in 1977-78.
He ran for the provincial legislature in a by-election for the riding of Wentworth held on April 5, 1979. He lost to New Democratic Party candidate Colin Isaacs by 543 votes.{{cite news |title=Scarborough West, Wentworth held by NDP's Johnston, Isaacs |newspaper=The Globe and Mail |date=April 6, 1979 |page=1}} Two years later, he defeated Isaacs by 260 votes in the 1981 provincial election.{{cite news|author=Canadian Press |title=Election results for Metro Toronto |newspaper=The Windsor Star |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=0NtYAAAAIBAJ&sjid=QlIMAAAAIBAJ&pg=6285%2C1391429 |date=March 20, 1981 |location=Windsor, Ontario |page=22 |accessdate=2014-04-01}} Dean was named a minister without portfolio in Davis's government on July 6, 1983.{{cite news |title=Shuffle gives Treasury job to Grossman |last1=Speirs |first1=Rosemary |last2=Stead |first2=Sylvia |last3=Cruikshank |first3=John |newspaper=The Globe and Mail |date=July 6, 1983 |pages=1, 2}} He was appointed Provincial Secretary for Social Development on December 23 of the same year.{{cite news |title=Ready for stress, new Ontario minister says |last=Stead |first=Sylvia |newspaper=The Globe and Mail |date=December 24, 1983 |page=12}} He supported Dennis Timbrell to succeed Davis in the Progressive Conservative Party's 1985 leadership convention, and was retained in his portfolio when Frank Miller replaced Davis as Premier of Ontario on February 8, 1985.{{cite news |title=The Ontario Cabinet |newspaper=The Globe and Mail |date=February 9, 1985 |page=4}}
Dean was re-elected by an increased margin in the 1985 provincial election, which saw the Progressive Conservatives reduced to a fragile minority government.{{cite news |title=Results of vote in Ontario election |newspaper=The Globe and Mail |date=May 3, 1985 |page=13}} He was appointed Minister of Revenue on May 17, 1985, but accomplished little in this position before Miller's government was defeated in the house the following month.{{cite news |title=The new Cabinet |newspaper=The Globe and Mail |date=May 18, 1985 |page=11}} In opposition, Dean served as his party's critic for Revenue and Senior Citizen's Affairs. He did not run for re-election in 1987.
=Cabinet=
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| post1preceded = Bud Gregory
| post1 = Minister of Revenue
| post1years = 1985 (May–June)
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| post1preceded = Bruce McCaffrey
| post1 = Provincial Secretary for Social Development
| post1years = 1983–1985
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Later life
He served on the Board of Directors of St. Joseph's Healthcare and the Royal Botanical Gardens in Hamilton, Ontario. He remained an active member of the Progressive Conservative Party, the McMaster Alumni Association, and the United Church of Canada until his death.
References
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External links
- {{Ontario MPP biography|id=gordon-howlett-dean}}
{{Davis Ministry}}
{{Miller Ministry}}
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Category:Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario MPPs
Category:Members of the United Church of Canada
Category:Members of the Executive Council of Ontario
Category:20th-century mayors of places in Ontario
Category:20th-century members of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario