Gordon Stronach | |
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Mayor of London, Ontario | |
In office 1 January 1961 –1 January 1968 | |
Preceded by | Allan Johnston |
Succeeded by | Herbert McClure |
Personal details | |
Born | Frank Gordon Stronach 1908 London,England |
Died | January 1,1968 59–60) | (aged
Nationality | Canadian |
Profession | Police officer |
Frank Gordon Stronach was a Canadian politician,who served as mayor of London,Ontario from 1961 to 1968.
Stronach,a retired 26-year veteran of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, [1] was serving as police chief in the suburban London Township,which was slated for annexation into the city on 1 January 1961. [2] He ran for mayor in the 1960 municipal election after being unable to negotiate a position with the London Police Service,into which the township force was to be amalgamated. [2] He won over incumbent mayor Allan Johnston by a narrow margin of 174 votes,triggering a recount which confirmed his victory. [3]
Johnston ran against Stronach again in the 1962 municipal election,which Stronach won by a wider 4,900-vote margin. [4] In the 1964 election,Stronach was returned over two candidates including a 21-year-old University of Western Ontario student named Theo Wolder,who later went on to become a Judge of the Ontario Court of Justice; [5] in the 1966 election,he won reelection to a three-year term by acclamation. [6]
He ran as an Ontario Liberal Party candidate for London South in the 1967 provincial election,but lost to incumbent MPP John White. [7]
He died in office on 1 January 1968, [6] and was succeeded as mayor by Herbert McClure in a council vote on 8 January. [8]
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