Joseph Patrick Foley (March 2, 1872 [1] —May 11, 1928 [2] ) was a politician in Manitoba, Canada. He served in the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba from 1914 to 1915, as a member of the Conservative Party.
Manitoba is a province at the longitudinal centre of Canada. It is often considered one of the three prairie provinces and is Canada's fifth-most populous province with its estimated 1.3 million people. Manitoba covers 649,950 square kilometres (250,900 sq mi) with a widely varied landscape, stretching from the northern oceanic coastline to the southern border with the United States. The province is bordered by the provinces of Ontario to the east and Saskatchewan to the west, the territories of Nunavut to the north, and Northwest Territories to the northwest, and the U.S. states of North Dakota and Minnesota to the south.
The Legislative Assembly of Manitoba and the Queen of Canada in Right of Manitoba, represented by the Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba form the legislature of the Canadian province of Manitoba. Fifty-seven members are elected to this assembly in provincial general elections, all in single-member constituencies with first-past-the-post voting. The Manitoba Legislative Building is located in central Winnipeg, at the meeting point of the Wolseley and Fort Rouge constituencies.
The Progressive Conservative Party of Manitoba is a right-of-centre political party in Manitoba, Canada and the only right-leaning party in the province. It is currently the governing party in the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba, after winning a substantial majority in the 2016 provincial election.
Foley was born in Halifax, Nova Scotia, the son of John Foley and Ellen Hogan, both natives of Ireland, and was educated at La Salle Academy in that city. In 1906, he married Minnie Sherry. He moved to Manitoba around 1908. Foley practised law with James Albert Manning Aikins and later with Tupper, McTavish, Foley and Tupper. [2] In religion, he was a Roman Catholic.
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He was elected to the Manitoba legislature in the 1914 provincial election, [1] defeating Liberal candidate J. Willoughby by 319 votes in the Winnipeg North "A" constituency. The Conservatives won a majority government, and Foley served as a backbench supporter of Rodmond Roblin's administration.
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In 1915, the Roblin ministry was forced to resign from office amid a serious corruption scandal. A new general election was called, which the Liberals won in a landslide. [3] Foley finished third in his bid for re-election, losing to Liberal candidate Robert Newton Lowery.
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Foley died in Winnipeg of a heart attack at the age of 56. [2]
