Percy Vivian

{{Infobox officeholder

| name=Reginald Percival Vivian

| image=Reginald Percy Vivian.jpg

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| caption= Vivian, {{circa|1957}}

| birth_date={{birth date|1902|10|16|df=yes}}

| birth_place=Barrie, Ontario

| death_date={{death date and age|1986|1|30|1902|10|16|df=yes}}

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| office=Member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario for Durham

| term_start=4 August 1943

| term_end=27 April 1948

| predecessor=Cecil Mercer

| successor=John Weir Foote

| riding2=Durham

| term_start2=June 1957

| term_end2=June 1962

| predecessor2=John Mason James

| successor2=Russell Honey

| profession=Physician, professor of medicine

| party=Progressive Conservative

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Reginald Percival (Percy) Vivian (16 October 1902 – 30 January 1986) was a Canadian politician, physician and professor of medicine. He served as a Progressive Conservative party member of the House of Commons of Canada.

Background

The son of Reginald Percy Vivian and Annie May Brodie, he was born in Barrie, Ontario. He was educated there and at the University of Toronto. In 1926, he married Judith Brewin.{{cite book |title=Canadian Parliamentary Guide |year=1944 |last=Normandin |first=A L}}

Politics

Vivian was elected as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario in 1943 for the Ontario Progressive Conservative party. From 1943 to 1946, he was Minister of Health and Public Welfare under Premier George A. Drew and remained a member of provincial Parliament until 1948, although he was chief of McGill University's Department of Health and Social Medicine in early 1947.{{cite web | url=http://www.rbc.com/responsibility/letter/february1947.html | accessdate=2009-03-31 | date=February 1947 | title=Prospect of Health | location=Montreal | publisher=Royal Bank of Canada }}

Almost a decade after leaving Ontario politics, Vivian was elected to the House of Commons of Canada at the Durham riding in the 1957 general election. After winning a second term in the 1958 election, Vivian was defeated in the 1962 election by Russell Honey of the Liberal party.