Reuben Eldridge Truax
Template:Short description Template:Use Canadian English Template:Use dmy dates Script error: No such module "infobox".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".Script error: No such module "Check for conflicting parameters". Reuben Eldridge Truax (October 11, 1847 – April 3, 1935) was an Ontario businessman and political figure. He represented Bruce South in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1894 to 1904 and from 1908 to 1911 and Bruce East in 1891 and Bruce South from 1913 to 1921 in the House of Commons of Canada as a Liberal member. Truax served four years as reeve and was mayor of Walkerton, Ontario in 1888 and 1889.
He was born in Montreal, Canada East in 1847 and educated in Walkerton, Ontario. In 1870, he married Jessie Porteous. He owned a sawmill, planing mill and sash and door factory. He was first elected to the House of Commons in 1891 but that election was declared invalid and Henry Cargill was elected by acclamation in the by-election which followed. Truax was an unsuccessful candidate for the federal seat in Bruce South in 1911 and 1921.
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- Reuben Eldridge Truax – Parliament of Canada biography
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- The History of the County of Bruce and of the minor municipalities therein ..., N Robertson (1906)
- A History of Ontario : its resources and development. Part II., A Fraser (1909)
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- 1847 births
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- Mayors of Walkerton, Ontario
- Members of the House of Commons of Canada from Ontario
- 19th-century mayors of places in Ontario
- 19th-century members of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario
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