Robert Douglas Kennedy (June 15, 1916 - May 27, 2003) was a politician in Ontario, Canada. He served in the Ontario Legislative Council from 1967 to 1985, as a member of the Progressive Conservative Party.
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Kennedy was born in Cooksville, Ontario, Ontario to John Robert Kennedy (1883-1931) and Mary Evelyn Mabel Ellis (1890 - 1985). He received a Bachelor of Science from Ontario Agricultural College (then Guelph University) in 1940. He joined the Canadian Army after graduating, and served until the end of World War II in 1945. After he returned, he helped other veterans through the Land Law Veteran. Kennedy was a guardian in the Peel Board of Education South from 1955 to 1963, and a commissioner at Toronto Township Hydro from 1963 to 1967.
Kennedy is the nephew of former Ontario prime minister Thomas Laird Kennedy, and uncle of current legislator, Ted Chudleigh. He and his wife, Kathleen, raise four children. He died in Mississauga, Ontario, and was buried at St. Baptist Cemetery. John, Peel Region, Ontario.
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He was elected to the Ontario legislature in the 1967 provincial election, defeating Liberal candidate Ted Glista by 3,618 votes at Peel South. He was re-elected in the 1971 election, and returned for his redistributed Mississauga South constituents in 1975, 1977 and 1981. He was a backbench supporter of John Robarts, William Davis and the administration of Frank Miller, and served as Head of the Whip Government for a period in the 1970s. an. He did not seek re-election in 1985.
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- Legislative Legislation of Ontario Legislative Council
- Tribute to the Ontario Legislative Assembly, June 2, 2003
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