12 Facts About Philip Givens

Philip Givens was born and raised in Toronto and attended high school at Harbord Collegiate Institute.

Philip Givens studied law at Osgoode Hall Law School and graduated in 1949.

Philip Givens became a judge after leaving politics in the late 1970s.

Philip Givens retired from the judiciary in 1988, and died in Toronto in 1995.

Philip Givens served the remaining 13 months in Summerville's two-year term, and then was elected as mayor in the 1964 municipal election.

Philip Givens led a public campaign to purchase a sculpture by artist Henry Moore, The Archer, for placement in Toronto's Nathan Phillips Square in front of the City Hall.

The controversy had a political cost and Philip Givens was defeated when he ran for re-election as mayor in 1966.

Philip Givens ran for the House of Commons of Canada in the 1957 and 1958 federal elections, but was defeated in his bid to become Member of Parliament for Spadina.

Philip Givens was finally elected to Parliament in the 1968 election from the York West electoral district in suburban Toronto.

Philip Givens then ran in the 1971 Ontario provincial election for the Ontario Liberal Party in the Ontario Legislative Assembly's York-Forest Hill constituency.

Philip Givens won the close three-way race by promising to support the completion of the Spadina Expressway on the constituency's western border.

Philip Givens's constituency was abolished in the 1975 electoral district boundary redistribution.