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{{Short description|Canadian politician}}
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| honorific-prefix = [[The Honourable]]
| name             = George Adam Clare
| honorific-suffix = [[Queen's Privy Council for Canada|PC]]
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| constituency_MP  = [[Waterloo South]]
| parliament       = Canadian
| predecessor      = [[James Livingston (Canadian politician)|James Livingston]]
| successor        = [[Frank Stewart Scott]]
| term_start       = 1900
| term_end         = 1915
| birth_date       = {{birth date|1854|06|06}}
| birth_place      = [[Preston, Ontario|Preston]], [[Canada West]]
| death_date       = {{death date and age|1915|01|09|1854|06|06}}
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'''George Adam Clare''', {{Post-nominals|country=CAN|PC}} (June 6, 1854 &ndash; January 9, 1915) was a businessman, manufacturer and politician based in [[Preston, Ontario|Preston]], [[Ontario]], Canada (now part of [[Cambridge, Ontario]]).

He was born in Preston to John Clare and Margaret Beck. In 1875, he went to work at his father's [[foundry]] eventually purchasing the enterprise in partnership with his brother and another associate upon his father's retirement in 1881. The business was incorporated in 1901 as Clare Bros. Co. Ltd., with George Clare as its president.<ref name = "Cambridge">{{cite web | url = http://www.city.cambridge.on.ca/cs_pubaccess/hall_of_fame.php?aid=101&cpid=33&did=0&sid=34&ssid=0&tp=0&grid=0 | title = Hall of Fame members: George A. Clare | publisher = City of Cambridge | accessdate = 2007-02-10}}</ref>

In 1876, he married Catherine Fink.<ref name="johnson">{{cite book |title=The Canadian Directory of Parliament 1867-1967 |last=Johnson |first=J.K. |year=1968 |publisher=Public Archives of Canada}}</ref>

Clare also headed a number of other companies such as Galt Stove and Furnace, Clare and Clare and Brodest Ltd. of Winnipeg, Solid Leather Shoe Co. Ltd, [[Preston Car Company|Preston Car and Coach Co.]] and Canadian Office and School Furniture Co. Ltd.<ref name = "Cambridge" />

Clare was elected to the Preston town council in 1883 and became [[Reeve (Canada)|reeve]] of Preston in 1886 serving for two years. He assumed this position again from 1891 to 1898.<ref name = "Cambridge" />

When Preston was incorporated as a town in 1900 he became its first mayor. He also served as [[County Warden|warden]] of [[Waterloo County]] in 1895.<ref name = "Cambridge" />

Clare was also active in federal politics running as the [[Conservative Party of Canada (historic)|Conservative Party]]'s candidate in [[Waterloo South]] on several occasions. He was defeated by [[James Livingston (Canadian politician)|James Livingston]] in the [[1891 Canadian federal election|1891]] and [[1896 Canadian federal election|1896 federal election]]s before winning a seat in the [[House of Commons of Canada]] in the [[1900 Canadian federal election|1900 election]]. He served as a [[Member of Parliament (Canada)|Member of Parliament]] until his death in 1915 and was named to the [[Queen's Privy Council of Canada]] in 1913, a rare honour for someone not in [[Canadian Cabinet|Cabinet]].<ref name = "Cambridge" /> Clare died in Preston.<ref name="johnson"/>

He was inducted to the City of Cambridge Hall of Fame in 2005.<ref name = "Cambridge" />

==Electoral record==
{{1911 Canadian federal election/Waterloo South|collapsed=yes}}
{{1908 Canadian federal election/Waterloo South}}
{{1904 Canadian federal election/Waterloo South}}
{{1900 Canadian federal election/Waterloo South}}
{{1896 Canadian federal election/Waterloo South}}
{{1891 Canadian federal election/Waterloo South}}

==References==
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==External links==
* {{Canadian Parliament links|ID=7534}}
* [http://www.city.cambridge.on.ca/cs_pubaccess/hall_of_fame.php?aid=101&cpid=33&did=0&sid=34&ssid=0&tp=0&grid=0 Cambridge Hall of Fame biography]

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[[Category:1854 births]]
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[[Category:Conservative Party of Canada (1867–1942) MPs]]
[[Category:Members of the House of Commons of Canada from Ontario]]
[[Category:Members of the King's Privy Council for Canada]]
[[Category:19th-century mayors of places in Ontario]]
[[Category:20th-century mayors of places in Ontario]]
[[Category:20th-century members of the House of Commons of Canada]]