Kenneth Charles Bolton was a politician in Ontario, Canada.
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Kenneth Bolton was a New Democratic member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1969 to 1971 representing the riding of Middlesex South.
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Kenneth Bolton studied arts and theology at St John's College, where he studied for the ministry and was ordained an Anglican priest in 1932.
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Kenneth Bolton served as a minister throughout Canada and was later chaplain of Huron University College and associate professor of pastoral theology at the University of Western Ontario as well as Archdeacon of Bishop Cronyn Memorial Anglican Church in London, Ontario.
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Kenneth Bolton was active in social justice causes with groups such as Oxfam and Amnesty International.
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Kenneth Bolton was elected to the legislature in a 1969 by-election.
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Kenneth Bolton's campaign was a struggle which was complicated because of traffic accident three month before the by-election in which he broke several bones.
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Kenneth Bolton's victory was credited to campaigning on the issue of Medicare at a time when the Progressive Conservative government of John Robarts was reluctant to join the plan.
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Kenneth Bolton's victory is credited with helping to pressure the government to agree to bring the province into the plan.
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Kenneth Bolton was defeated in the 1971 general election by Robert G Eaton after serving in office for two years.
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Kenneth Bolton served for a short time in 1975 as acting secretary of the Primate's World Relief and Development Fund.
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Kenneth Bolton died of heart failure during a flight from London, England to Vancouver, BC.