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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>{{Short description|Canadian politician}}<br />
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| name=Gordon Chaplin<br />
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| birth_date=31 July 1907<br />
| birth_place=[[St. Catharines]], [[Ontario]]<br />
| death_date={{death date and age|df=yes|1964|6|27|1907|7|31}}<br />
| death_place= [[Cambridge, Ontario|Galt, Ontario]]<ref name="johnson"/><br />
| spouse= Helen Elizabeth Goring<br />
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| riding=[[Waterloo South]]<br />
| term_start=June 1962<br />
| term_end=June 1964<br />
| predecessor=[[William Anderson (Canadian politician born 1905)|William Anderson]]<br />
| successor=[[Max Saltsman]]<br />
| profession=Businessman, manufacturer<br />
| party=[[Progressive Conservative Party of Canada|Progressive Conservative]]<br />
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'''Gordon Chaplin''' (31 July 1907 – 27 June 1964) was a [[Progressive Conservative Party of Canada|Progressive Conservative party]] member of the [[House of Commons of Canada]]. He was born in [[St. Catharines]], [[Ontario]] and became a businessman and manufacturer by career.<ref name="parl">{{Canadian Parliament links|ID=11854|nolist=yes}}</ref><br />
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The son of [[James Dew Chaplin]] and Edna Elizabeth Burgess, he was educated in St. Catharines and established himself in business in [[Galt, Ontario|Galt]]. Chaplin was president of Canadian General Tower Limited and a director of the Waterloo Savings and Trust Company. In 1920, he married Helen Elizabeth Goring.<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><br />
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Chaplin represented [[Waterloo South]] in the [[Legislative Assembly of Ontario]] from 1945 to 1948;<ref name="parl"/> he was defeated when he ran for reelection in 1948.<ref name="johnson"/> He was first elected to the House of Commons for the [[Waterloo South]] riding in the [[1962 Canadian federal election|1962 general election]] and re-elected there in [[1963 Canadian federal election|1963]]. Chaplin died in office on 27 June 1964 during his term in the [[26th Canadian Parliament]].<ref name="parl"/><br />
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His uncle [[Alexander Dew Chaplin]] also served in the House of Commons.<ref name="parl"/><br />
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Gordon Chaplin Park in [[Cambridge, Ontario]] is named in his honour.<br />
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==Electoral record==<br />
{{1963 Canadian federal election/Waterloo South}}<br />
{{1962 Canadian federal election/Waterloo South}}<br />
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==References==<br />
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==External links==<br />
* [https://generations.regionofwaterloo.ca/getperson.php?personID=I99586&tree=generations James Elliott Gordon Chaplin profile at Waterloo Region]<br />
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[[Category:Businesspeople from St. Catharines]]<br />
[[Category:Members of the House of Commons of Canada from Ontario]]<br />
[[Category:Politicians from St. Catharines]]<br />
[[Category:Progressive Conservative Party of Canada MPs]]<br />
[[Category:Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario MPPs]]<br />
[[Category:20th-century members of the House of Commons of Canada]]<br />
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