- Thomas B. Molloy
Thomas Boniface Molloy (
November 28 ,1878 —?) was a politician inManitoba ,Canada . He served in theLegislative Assembly of Manitoba from 1914 to 1915, as a member of the Liberal Party.Molly was born in
Shelley, Manitoba . His father, John Molloy, was a Dominion land surveyor, and was involved in early construction of theCanadian Pacific Railway . The elder Molloy sought election to theCanadian House of Commons in the 1879 federal election, but lost toJoseph Royal of the Conservative Party in the riding of Provencher. Thomas Molloy was educated at public school in Emerson, and at normal school inWinnipeg . He worked as a contractor.Thomas Molloy was elected to the Manitoba legislature in the 1914 provincial election, defeating Conservative incumbent
Albert Prefontaine by seven votes in the Carillon constituency. The Conservatives won the election, and Molly sat with his party in opposition.In 1915, the Conservative government of
Rodmond P. Roblin was forced to resign from office amid a corruption scandal. A new election was called, in which the Liberals won a landslide majority. Molloy, however, lost his seat to Prefontaine by twenty-four votes. His defeat was primarily due to the Liberal Party's unpopularity among some francophone voters, who opposed the party's plans to end funding for denominational education.Molloy ran for the Canadian House of Commons in the federal election of 1921 as a candidate of the
Liberal Party of Canada , and lost to Progressive candidateRobert Alexander Hoey by 1,397 votes in the riding of Springfield. He also attempted to return to the provincial legislature in the 1927, but lost to Prefontaine by 1,146 votes. Prefontaine was by this time a member of theProgressive Party of Manitoba .Molloy made a further bid for elected office in the 1935 federal election, running as a candidate of
Henry Herbert Stevens 's Reconstruction Party in the riding of St. Boniface. He finished last in a field of five candidates with only 438 votes.
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