12 Facts About Harry Nixon

Harry Corwin Nixon was a Canadian politician and briefly the 13th premier of Ontario in 1943.

Harry Nixon is both the longest-serving member in the history of the Ontario legislature and the shortest-serving premier of Ontario.

Harry Nixon was first elected to the Legislative Assembly of Ontario in 1919 as a candidate of the United Farmers of Ontario.

Harry Nixon served as a Cabinet minister in the government of Premier Ernest C Drury as Provincial Secretary and Registrar.

Mitchell Hepburn, a farmer and former UFO organizer, became leader of the Ontario Liberal Party, and Harry Nixon led his Progressive remnant into an alliance with Hepburn's party.

Harry Nixon ran and was elected as a Liberal in the 1937 election.

Harry Nixon resumed his former Cabinet position of Provincial Secretary and Registrar in the Hepburn cabinet and was the senior minister in the government.

Harry Nixon resigned from the cabinet on October 22,1942, in opposition to Hepburn's refusal to allow a leadership convention to elect a new leader.

Harry Nixon was chosen as Liberal leader, and thus appointed Premier in May 1943, but his government was unable to win the election held three months later, and the Liberals were reduced to third place behind George Drew's Progressive Conservatives and Ted Jolliffe's Co-operative Commonwealth Federation.

Harry Nixon resigned as Liberal leader on December 10,1944, and nominated Hepburn as the party's House Leader.

Harry Nixon remained a Liberal Member of Provincial Parliament until his death in 1961.

Harry Nixon served as Treasurer in the Cabinet of David Peterson from 1985 to 1990.