Leeming Carr

{{Short description|Canadian politician}}

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{{Infobox officeholder

| name = Dr. Leeming George Carr

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| office = MPP for Hamilton East

| term_start = June 25, 1923

| term_end = May 15, 1928

| predecessor = George Grant Halcrow

| successor = William Robert Morrison

| party = Conservative

| birth_date = {{birth date|1864|12|21}}

| birth_place = Glanford, Canada West

| death_date = {{death date and age|1934|06|06|1864|12|21}}

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| occupation = Physician

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Leeming Carr (December 21, 1864 – June 6, 1934) was a physician{{cite book |pmc=403472 |title=Canadian Medical Association Journal |date=July 1934|volume=31 |issue=1 |pages=106–108 }} and political figure in Ontario. He represented Hamilton East in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1923 to 1928 as a Conservative member.{{cite web |url=http://www.ontla.on.ca/web/members/members_all_detail.do?locale=en&ID=963 |title=Leeming Carr, MPP |publisher=Legislative Assembly of Ontario |access-date=2011-06-21}}

He was born in Glanford township on December 12, 1862 to John Champion Carr and Sarah Susan Ryckman, and was educated in Hamilton and at the University of Toronto, the University of Glasgow and the University of Edinburgh. Carr served as a member of the Wentworth County Council from 1898 to 1900 and later was a member of the Hamilton Board of Education.{{cite news |newspaper=The Border Cities Star |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=5RE_AAAAIBAJ&sjid=704MAAAAIBAJ&pg=4228,2268249 |title=Ex-Cabinet Minister Dead |date=June 6, 1934 |page=1}} He was a minister without portfolio in the provincial cabinet from 1923 to 1928. Carr resigned his seat in the assembly in 1928 after he was named sheriff for Wentworth County.{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=blstAAAAIBAJ&sjid=nNkFAAAAIBAJ&pg=5815,6746693 |title=3 Conservative Candidates Win In By-elections |newspaper=Ottawa Citizen |date=June 27, 1923 |page=19}}

On June 17, 1890 he married Katharine Anderson, who later became a published author.

His son Leeming Anderson Carr Jr was also a doctor and played with the Hamilton Alerts and won the 1912 Grey Cup.{{cite web| url = https://www.thestar.com/sports/football/cfl/article/1292158--grey-cup-old-brown-beanie-payoff-for-winning-1912-championship| title = Grey Cup: Old brown beanie payoff for winning 1912 championship {{!}} The Star| website = Toronto Star}} His grandson was John Munro, a federal cabinet minister and MP.