Background
He was born in Harriston, Ontario and became a garage owner and operator by career.
He was born in Harriston, Ontario and became a garage owner and operator by career.
He was first elected at the Okanagan—Revelstoke riding in the 1953 general election and re-elected there in 1957. He was defeated after his second term by Stuart Fleming of the Progressive Conservative party in the 1958 election. He died of a stroke in Enderby, British Columbia in 1965, at the age of 69.