Sean Conway
| Sean Conway | |
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| Ontario MPP | |
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In office 1999–2003 |
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| Preceded by | New riding |
| Succeeded by | John Yakabuski |
| Constituency | Renfrew—Nipissing—Pembroke |
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In office 1975–1999 |
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| Preceded by | Maurice Hamilton |
| Succeeded by | Riding abolished |
| Constituency | Renfrew North |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
July 24, 1951 Pembroke, Ontario |
| Political party | Liberal |
| Relations | Thomas Patrick Murray, grandfather |
| Occupation | Professor |
Sean Conway (born July 24, 1951) is a former provincial politician in Ontario, Canada and a university professor. He served for 28 years as a Liberal member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario, from 1975 to 2003, and was a high-profile cabinet minister in the government of David Peterson. After positions as a Fellow in the School of Policy Studies at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario, a special assistant to the Principal of Queen's University, Daniel Woolf, and the Acting Vice-Principal (Advancement) at Queen's, Conway is currently an instructor at St. Michael's College at the University of Toronto and a Distinguished Research Fellow in the Centre for Urban Energy at Ryerson University.
Conway attended St. Joseph's Separate School, Madawaska Valley District High School. He earned his Bachelor of Arts at Waterloo Lutheran University (now Wilfrid Laurier University), and his Masters at Queen's University, both in history. His grandfather, Thomas Patrick Murray, represented Renfrew South for the Liberals from 1929 to 1945.
In the provincial election of 1975, at age twenty-four, Conway was elected as a Liberal Member of Provincial Parliament (MPP) for the eastern Ontario riding of Renfrew North. He defeated Progressive Conservative candidate Bob Cotnam by 183 votes. The Progressive Conservatives won a minority government in the election, and Conway sat with his party in the opposition benches.
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