Frederick Murray Blois
Template:Short description Template:Use Canadian English Script error: No such module "infobox".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".Script error: No such module "Check for conflicting parameters". Frederick Murray Blois (March 30, 1893 – August 3, 1984) was a Canadian politician.
Born in Gore District, Nova Scotia, he was a member of the Nova Scotia House of Assembly for eight years starting in 1937 and was Conservative Party leader and Leader of the Opposition from 1941 until the 1945 provincial election wiped out the party.
Blois ran unsuccessfully for the House of Commons of Canada as the Progressive Conservative candidate in the riding of Colchester—Hants in the 1957 federal election. He lost by 389 votes to the Liberal candidate. In 1960, he was summoned to the Senate of Canada representing the senatorial division of Colchester-Hants, Nova Scotia. He resigned in 1976.
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- Frederick Murray Blois – Parliament of Canada biography
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- 1893 births
- 1984 deaths
- Canadian senators from Nova Scotia
- Canadian people of Scottish descent
- Progressive Conservative Association of Nova Scotia MLAs
- People from Hants County, Nova Scotia
- Progressive Conservative Party of Canada candidates for the Canadian House of Commons
- Candidates in the 1957 Canadian federal election
- Politicians of Acadian descent
- Nova Scotia political party leaders
- 20th-century members of the Nova Scotia House of Assembly
- 20th-century members of the Senate of Canada