Jacob Schulz

October 12, 1901 (age 81)

Friedensthal

He joined the co-operative movement and became involved in municipal politics. He was a candidate for the Manitoba Company-operative Commonwealth Federation in the 1949 provincial election losing by 300 votes to Ray Mitchell. In 1950, Schulz became founding president of the Manitoba Farmers Union and served as chairman of the Interprovincial Farm Union Council in the mid-1950s. He was elected to Parliament in the 1957 general election representing Springfield for the Company-operative Commonwealth Federation. He only served for a year before losing his seat in the 1958 federal election that elected a landslide majority government for the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada. Shulz founded a construction company in 1960 and wrote a book, The Rise and Fall of Farm Organizations.

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Shulz was born in Friedensthal, a Bessarabia German community in the Russian Empire, from 1918 part of Romania and today Mirnopolye, Ukraine.

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He joined the co-operative movement and became involved in municipal politics. He was a candidate for the Manitoba Company-operative Commonwealth Federation in the 1949 provincial election losing by 300 votes to Ray Mitchell. In 1950, Schulz became founding president of the Manitoba Farmers Union and served as chairman of the Interprovincial Farm Union Council in the mid-1950s.

He was elected to Parliament in the 1957 general election representing Springfield for the Company-operative Commonwealth Federation.

He only served for a year before losing his seat in the 1958 federal election that elected a landslide majority government for the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada. Shulz founded a construction company in 1960 and wrote a book, The Rise and Fall of Farm Organizations.

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