Leopold Macaulay

{{short description|Canadian politician}}

{{Use Canadian English|date=January 2023}}

{{Infobox officeholder

| name = Leopold Macaulay

| image =

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| office = Ontario MPP

| term_start = 1926

| term_end = 1943

| predecessor = New riding

| successor = Ted Jolliffe

| constituency = York South

| party = Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario

| birth_date = {{birth date|1887|11|25}}

| birth_place = Peterborough, Ontario, Canada

| death_date = {{death date and age|1979|12|24|1887|11|25}}

| death_place = Toronto, Ontario, Canada

| occupation = Lawyer

| partner = Hazel Charlton Haight

| children = 3

}}

Leopold Macaulay (November 25, 1887 – December 24, 1979) was a Canadian politician and lawyer, born in Peterborough, Ontario.{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=X1pLAAAAMAAJ&q=%22Macaulay,+leopold%22+1887 |title=The Canadian Parliamentary Guide - Pierre G. Normandin, A. Léopold Normandin - Google Books |year=1941 |via=Google Books|access-date=2013-04-05}}{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lK15AAAAMAAJ&q=%22MACAULAY,+LEOPOLD,+b.+1887+Peterborough+-+d.+Dec.***%22 |title=Canadian Annual Review of Politics and Public Affairs - Rb Byers - Google Books |isbn=9780802024077 |via=Google Books|access-date=2013-04-05|last1=Saywell |first1=John T. |year=1979 |publisher=University of Toronto Press }}

Macaulay was a Conservative member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario. He was first elected as Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) for the Toronto area riding of York South in 1926. He was brought into the cabinet as Provincial Secretary and Registrar in September 1930 in the last few weeks of the administration of Ontario Premier George Howard Ferguson. He was retained in that position when Ferguson's successor, George Henry formed his cabinet in December.

Macaulay went on to serve as Minister of Highways from 1931 to 1934 and also Minister of Public Works for six months before the defeat of the Henry government by Mitchell Hepburn's Ontario Liberal Party in the 1934 Ontario election.

Macaulay kept his seat through the election and, in 1936, he was a candidate in the Ontario Conservative leadership convention placing fourth. He remained in the legislature until losing his seat in the 1943 Ontario election to Ontario Co-operative Commonwealth Federation leader Ted Jolliffe.

He also served on the Board of Regents of Victoria University, University of Toronto from 1932 to 1972, serving as chair from 1942 to 1951.{{Cite web|title=Board of Regents » Victoria University|url=https://vicu.utoronto.ca/about-victoria/board-of-regents/|access-date=2022-02-02|website=vicu.utoronto.ca|language=en-CA}}