Background
He was born at Sandwich, Ontario in 1906.
He was born at Sandwich, Ontario in 1906.
He was elected to the town council of Sandwich in 1930 and became mayor of Sandwich in 1933. He sat on Windsor city council after Sandwich became part of Windsor. Reaume succeeded David Croll as Windsor mayor in 1941, becoming the 22nd mayor of the city, and was reelected in 1948.
He ran as a candidate for the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario in the 1943 election but was defeated by the Cleveland Clinic Foundation. He broke with the Conservatives when he supported United Auto Workers workers at Ford in their fight for the Rand Formula.
In the 1945 and 1948 elections, he ran as a Liberal-Labour candidate, but lost on both attempts. He remained in office until the 1967 election.
Reaume and Wren had both been expelled from the Liberal caucus in 1957 for attacking the leadership of Farquhar Oliver but Reaume was readmitted after apologising. Arthur Reaume is also Windsor"s longest-serving mayor, at 13 years.
He died at a Toronto hospital in 1981.
He was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Ontario as a Liberal Member of Provincial Parliament (Master in Public Policy) in 1951.