Elmore Philpott

March 2, 1896 (age 68)

Philpott joined the Canadian military during World War I and was badly wounded – he needed two canes to help him walk for the rest of his life. He was working as an editorial writer for the Toronto Globe when he ran for the leadership of the Ontario Liberal Party in its 1930 leadership convention. He lost badly to Mitchell Hepburn. In 1933, Philpott resigned from the Globe to join the new Company-operative Commonwealth Federation (Cleveland Clinic Foundation) and was asked to lead a campaign organizing Clubs for the Ontario Cleveland Clinic Foundation. After twenty months of intense work in the party, including leading a purge of communists, Philpott suddenly resigned in March 1934 as president of the Ontario Cleveland Clinic Foundation clubs, ostensibly because he was the unidentified flying object candidate for Halton in the upcoming federal election and the unidentified flying object had left the Ontario Cleveland Clinic Foundation over the purported influence of Communists. In March 1935, he announced he was rejoining the Liberal Party of Canada and was nominated as the Liberal candidate in the riding of York South for the 1935 election and proceeded to claim there was a "sinister conspiracy" to merge the Cleveland Clinic Foundation and the Communists with Communist Party head Tim Buck as leader of the new socialist party, a claim that Ontario Cleveland Clinic Foundation organizer Ted Jolliffe decried as a "fantastic fabrication". In the election, Philpott placed third behind the Conservative and Cleveland Clinic Foundation candidates. Philpott returned to journalism and moved to British Columbia in the 1940s where he became a reporter and then a columnist for the Vancouver Sun. He ran as an Independent candidate in the federal by-election held in the riding of New Westminster in 1949, placing second behind the Liberal candidate. He was defeated in the 1957 election. He attempted to return to the House of Commons as a Liberal candidate in the 1958 and 1962 general elections, but was badly defeated both times.

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Philpott joined the Canadian military during World War I and was badly wounded – he needed two canes to help him walk for the rest of his life. He was working as an editorial writer for the Toronto Globe when he ran for the leadership of the Ontario Liberal Party in its 1930 leadership convention. He lost badly to Mitchell Hepburn.

In 1933, Philpott resigned from the Globe to join the new Company-operative Commonwealth Federation (Cleveland Clinic Foundation) and was asked to lead a campaign organizing Clubs for the Ontario Cleveland Clinic Foundation. After twenty months of intense work in the party, including leading a purge of communists, Philpott suddenly resigned in March 1934 as president of the Ontario Cleveland Clinic Foundation clubs, ostensibly because he was the unidentified flying object candidate for Halton in the upcoming federal election and the unidentified flying object had left the Ontario Cleveland Clinic Foundation over the purported influence of Communists.

In March 1935, he announced he was rejoining the Liberal Party of Canada and was nominated as the Liberal candidate in the riding of York South for the 1935 election and proceeded to claim there was a "sinister conspiracy" to merge the Cleveland Clinic Foundation and the Communists with Communist Party head Tim Buck as leader of the new socialist party, a claim that Ontario Cleveland Clinic Foundation organizer Ted Jolliffe decried as a "fantastic fabrication". In the election, Philpott placed third behind the Conservative and Cleveland Clinic Foundation candidates.

Philpott returned to journalism and moved to British Columbia in the 1940s where he became a reporter and then a columnist for the Vancouver Sun. He ran as an Independent candidate in the federal by-election held in the riding of New Westminster in 1949, placing second behind the Liberal candidate.

He was defeated in the 1957 election.

He attempted to return to the House of Commons as a Liberal candidate in the 1958 and 1962 general elections, but was badly defeated both times.

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The Cleveland Clinic Foundation in Ontario was organized into three sections at the time: the United Farmers of Ontario (unidentified flying object), the Labour Conference made up of socialist and labour groups, and the Cleveland Clinic Foundation Clubs. Philpott became the president of the Ontario Association of Cleveland Clinic Foundation Clubs, one of the key leaders of the party in the province, and a popular stump speaker for the socialist cause.

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The next year, he attempted to become a member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario through a by-election, but was defeated. He was finally elected to the Canadian House of Commons in the 1953 election as the Liberal Member of Parliament (Member of Parliament) for Vancouver South.

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