W.E.N. Sinclair
| W.E.N. Sinclair | |
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| Member of the Canadian Parliament for Ontario (riding) |
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In office 1945–1947 |
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| Preceded by | William Henry Moore |
| Succeeded by | Arthur Henry Williams |
| Ontario MPP | |
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In office 1934–1937 |
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| Preceded by | New riding |
| Succeeded by | Arthur Henry Williams |
| Constituency | Ontario (riding) |
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In office 1919–1934 |
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| Preceded by | Charles Calder |
| Succeeded by | Riding abolished |
| Constituency | Ontario South |
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In office 1911–1914 |
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| Preceded by | Charles Calder |
| Succeeded by | Charles Calder |
| Constituency | Ontario South |
| Mayor of Oshawa, Ontario | |
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In office 1911, 1915, 1932-34 |
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| Personal details | |
| Born |
June 28, 1873 Whitby Township, Ontario |
| Died | November 26, 1947 (aged 74) Ottawa, Ontario |
| Political party | Liberal |
| Spouse(s) | Ella Montgomery (1907–1918), Edna Worden |
| Occupation | Lawyer |
William Edmund Newton Sinclair (June 28, 1873 – November 26, 1947), known as W. E. N. Sinclair, was a Canadian barrister, solicitor and interim leader of the Ontario Liberal Party.
Sinclair was born in Whitby Township, Ontario, the son of John Sinclair, and was educated at Toronto University, receiving a bachelor's degree in law. In 1907, he married Ella Minerva Montgomery; he married Edna Worden in 1918 after his first wife's death.
Sinclair was first elected to the Legislative Assembly of Ontario as a candidate of the Ontario Liberal Party in the 1911 provincial election but was defeated in 1914.
He returned to politics in the 1917 federal election on conscription (see Conscription Crisis of 1917), Sinclair ran on as part of the anti-conscription "Laurier Liberals" but was again defeated.
He returned to provincial politics and was elected again to the Ontario legislature in the 1919 provincial election as the MLA for the riding of Ontario South.
Sinclair ran for the leadership of the party in the 1922 leadership convention, but lost to Wellington Hay. Hay resigned following a disastrous election result, and Sinclair served as interim leader of the Ontario Liberal Party from 1923 to 1930 and also as Leader of the Opposition in the provincial legislature. He was interim leader for that length of time (and through the elections of 1926 and 1929) because of the party's state of disorganization and inability to hold a proper leadership convention.
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