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{{Short description|Canadian politician}}
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{{Infobox officeholder
| honorific-prefix = The Hon.
| name             = James Dew Chaplin
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| constituency_MP  = [[Lincoln (federal electoral district)|Lincoln]]
| parliament       = Canadian
| predecessor      = [[Edward Arthur Lancaster]]
| successor        = [[Norman Lockhart (politician)|Norman Lockhart]]
| term_start       = 1917
| term_end         = 1935
| birth_date       = {{birth date|1863|03|20}}
| birth_place      = [[Toronto]], [[Canada West]]
| death_date       = {{death date and age|1937|08|23|1863|03|20}}
| death_place      = [[St. Catharines]], [[Ontario]], Canada
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| party            = [[Conservative Party of Canada (historical)|Conservative]]
| relations        = [[Alexander Dew Chaplin]], brother
| children         = [[Gordon Chaplin]]<br />[[Edna Anderson]], Granddaughter
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| cabinet          = Minister of Trade and Commerce (1926)
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'''James Dew Chaplin''', {{Post-nominals|country=CAN|PC}} (March 20, 1863 &ndash; August 23, 1937) was a [[Canadians|Canadian]] politician.<ref name="parl">{{Canadian Parliament links|ID=7914|nolist=yes}}</ref>

Born in [[Toronto]], [[Canada West]],<ref name="parl"/> the son of William Lamont Chaplin and Harriet Dew,<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> Chaplin was educated at the Public Schools and St. Catharines Collegiate Institute. A manufacturer in [[St. Catharines, Ontario]], he was president of the Chaplin Wheel Company, Canada Axe and Harvest Tool Company, and the Wallingford Manufacturing Company.<ref>{{cite web|title=A cyclopædia of Canadian biography|work=[[Internet Archive]]|date=14 April 2024 |url=https://archive.org/details/cyclopdiaofcan00charuoft}}</ref> Chaplin served four years as a member of St. Catharines city council.<ref name="parl"/>

He was first elected to the [[House of Commons of Canada]] representing the riding of [[Lincoln (federal electoral district)|Lincoln]] in the [[1917 Canadian federal election|1917 federal election]]. A [[Conservative Party of Canada (historical)|Conservative]], he was re-elected in [[1921 Canadian federal election|1921]], [[1925 Canadian federal election|1925]], [[1926 Canadian federal election|1926]], and [[1930 Canadian federal election|1930]]. In 1926, he was the Minister of Trade and Commerce in the short lived cabinet of [[Arthur Meighen]].<ref name="parl"/>

In 1888, Chaplin married Edna Elizabeth Burgess. He died in St. Catharines at the age of 74.<ref name="johnson"/>

His brother [[Alexander Dew Chaplin|Alexander Dew]], his son [[Gordon Chaplin|Gordon]] and his granddaughter [[Edna Anderson]] also served in the House of Commons.<ref name="parl"/>
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==References==
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[[Category:1863 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:20th-century members of the House of Commons of Canada]]


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