27 Facts About Dave Neumann

David Emil Neumann was born on October 5,1941 and is a politician in the Canadian province of Ontario.

Dave Neumann was the mayor of Brantford from 1980 to 1987 and served in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario as a Liberal from 1987 to 1990.

Dave Neumann retired from the Brantford City Council in 2018.

Dave Neumann was born in Montreal, Quebec, and moved with his family to a dairy farm near Waterford, Ontario, as a child.

Dave Neumann earned a degree from McMaster University in Hamilton and worked as a secondary school teacher at Pauline Johnson Collegiate.

Dave Neumann later coordinated adult education for his school board and was president of the Brant Ontario Secondary School Teachers Federation.

Dave Neumann supported The Waffle and was part of a group of Brantford-area New Democrats who favoured running party candidates at the municipal level.

Dave Neumann ran for Brantford's fourth council ward in 1972 and nearly defeated veteran councillor Charles Ward for the second position.

Dave Neumann was elected as an alderman for Brantford's fifth ward in 1976 and was re-elected without opposition in 1978.

Dave Neumann became the city's mayor in 1980, defeating right-wing candidate Andy Woodburn and incumbent Charles Bowen, and was re-elected without serious opposition in 1982 and 1985.

Dave Neumann was in office when the city's Market Street was shut down and the unsuccessful Market Square Mall was constructed.

Dave Neumann has rejected that suggestion that he was to blame for these developments, noting that he voted against Market Street's closure while on council, that the mall was approved by council as a whole, and that no-one could have predicted the mall's giant Eaton's store would close.

Dave Neumann ran for the Ontario legislature in the 1971 provincial election as a New Democrat, finishing third against Liberal Party leader Robert Nixon in Brant.

Dave Neumann was elected to the Ontario legislature for Brantford in the 1987 provincial election, defeating New Democrat Jack Tubman and Progressive Conservative incumbent Phil Gillies.

The Liberals won a landslide majority government in this election under David Peterson's leadership, and Dave Neumann entered the legislature as a government backbencher.

Dave Neumann was parliamentary assistant to the Minister of Municipal Affairs from 1987 to 1988 and chaired the standing committee on social development from 1988 to 1990.

Dave Neumann lobbied for increased Via Rail service; in August 1990, he announced that a previously cancelled commuter rail service to Brantford would reopen.

The Liberals were defeated in the 1990 provincial election, and Dave Neumann lost his seat to New Democrat Brad Ward.

Dave Neumann ran again in the 1995 provincial election but lost to Progressive Conservative candidate Ron Johnson.

Dave Neumann resumed his teaching career after leaving political life, retiring from the Brant County Board of Education in 1997.

Dave Neumann ran for mayor of Brantford in 2000, but, despite an endorsement from the Brantford Expositor, he finished an unexpectedly poor third against incumbent Chris Friel.

From 1998 to 2005, Dave Neumann worked as executive director of the Ontario Association of Adult and Continuing Education School Board Administrators, based in Brantford.

Dave Neumann welcomed a $78,000 federal grant for literacy training in 2004.

Dave Neumann returned to elected office in the 2010 municipal election, winning the second seat in Brantford's fifth ward.

Dave Neumann serves on the brownfields community advisory committee, the social services committee, and the Brantford Heritage Committee.

Dave Neumann supported Jean Chretien's bid to lead the Liberal Party of Canada in 1993 and continued to support Chretien's leadership in the years that followed.

Dave Neumann supported Marguerite Ceschi-Smith's bid for the Liberal nomination in Brant in the buildup to the 2004 federal election.