Allan Lawrence

Allan Lawrence

Allan Frederick Lawrence, PC, QC (November 8, 1925 – September 6, 2008) was a Canadian politician.

After practising as a lawyer, Lawrence became a member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario by winning a 1958 provincial by-election in the downtown Toronto riding of St. George for the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario. In 1968, Premier John Robarts brought him into cabinet as Minister of Mines.

In 1971, he ran to succeed Robarts as party leader at the PC Party leadership convention. Lawrence lost to Bill Davis by 44 votes on the fourth ballot. Davis reunited the Tory party by inviting many of Lawrence's key workers, including John Tory and Norman K. Atkins, onto his team to create the Big Blue Machine that helped the Tories remain in power for a further fourteen years.

Davis appointed Lawrence as his Attorney-General but, in 1972, Lawrence resigned his seat in the Ontario legislature in order to enter federal politics. He was elected to the Canadian House of Commons in the 1972 federal election as the Progressive Conservative Member of Parliament (MP) for the rural Ontario riding of Northumberland—Durham. He served as an MP throughout the decade.

When the Tories won the 1979 federal election, Prime Minister Joe Clark appointed Lawrence to the Cabinet as Minister of Consumer and Corporate Affairs and Solicitor-General. The Clark government fell in a Motion of No Confidence after several months and was defeated in the 1980 election. Lawrence was re-elected in his riding, and returned to the Opposition benches.

He ran again in the 1984 election but, despite the Conservative victory that year, was passed over for a cabinet appointment by Brian Mulroney. Lawerence retired from politics at the 1988 election.

Lawrence retired to the small Ontario town of Cobourg with his wife Moira. He died on September 6, 2008 at Mount Sinai Hospital in Toronto. He was 82 years old.

External links

* [http://www.parl.gc.ca/information/about/people/key/bio.asp?Language=E&query=1256&s=M Federal Political Biography from the Library of Parliament]
* [http://www.northumberlandtoday.com/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=1190633 Former MP Allan Lawrence dies] - Obituary


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