Career
Born in Revelstoke, British Columbia, Simmons would go on to sit many times in the Canadian House of Commons representing the Yukon Territory. By 1953, at the next federal election, the riding of Yukon-Mackenzie River was abolished and transformed again into the Yukon electoral district. In parliament, Simmons sponsored a bill for the creation of an Alaska-Yukon pipeline.
He was re-elected in 1957 federal election, but his election was declared void and he lost the subsequent by-election.
He tried in the 1958 federal election to regain his seat but was again defeated and he never again went for a seat in the House of Commons. He died in 1979 following a stroke.
