List of Ontario senators
Historic
Notes: ¹ Senators are appointed to represent Ontario. Each senator may choose to designate a geographic area within Ontario as his or her division.

List of Ontario senators

Section Title: Historic
Table Section Text: Notes: ¹ Senators are appointed to represent Ontario. Each senator may choose to designate a geographic area within Ontario as his or her division.

Name	Party	Division1	Date appointed	Appointed by2	End of Term

James Cox Aikins	Liberal-Conservative	Ontario	October 23, 1867 January 7, 1896	Royal Proclamation Bowell	May 30, 1882 August 6, 1904

John Black Aird	Liberal	Toronto	November 10, 1964	Pearson	November 28, 1974

George Alexander	Conservative	Woodstock	May 30, 1873	MacDonald	May 29, 1891

George Allan	Liberal-Conservative	York	October 23, 1867	Royal Proclamation	July 24, 1901

James Arthurs	Conservative	Ontario	July 20, 1935	Bennett	October 7, 1937

Norman Atkins	Progressive Conservative	Markham	July 2, 1986	Mulroney	June 27, 2009

Allen Bristol Aylesworth	Liberal	North York	January 11, 1923	King	February 13, 1952

Robert Beith	Liberal	Bowmanville	January 15, 1907	Laurier	January 26, 1922

Napoléon Belcourt	Liberal	Ottawa	November 22, 1907	Laurier	August 7, 1932

Rhéal Bélisle	Progressive Conservative	Sudbury	February 4, 1963	Diefenbaker	November 3, 1992

John Joseph Bench	Liberal	Lincoln	November 19, 1942	King	December 9, 1947

William Moore Benidickson	Liberal	Kenora-Rainy River	July 7, 1965	Pearson	April 1, 1985

William Bennett	Conservative	Simcoe East	November 13, 1917	Borden	March 15, 1925

James Rea Benson	Liberal-Conservative	St. Catharines	March 14, 1868	Macdonald	March 18, 1885

Florence Bird	Liberal	Carleton	March 23, 1978	Trudeau, P.E.	January 15, 1983

Charles Lawrence Bishop	Liberal	Ottawa	April 18, 1945	King	September 23, 1966

Richard Blain	Conservative	Peel	July 26, 1917	Borden	November 27, 1926

Adam Blair	Liberal	Ontario	October 23, 1867	Royal Proclamation	December 29, 1867

Oliver Blake	Liberal	Ontario	October 23, 1867	Royal Proclamation	December 10, 1873

Peter Bosa	Liberal	York-Caboto	April 5, 1977	Trudeau, P. E.	December 10, 1998

Mackenzie Bowell	Conservative	Hastings	December 5, 1892	Thompson	December 10, 1917

Joseph-Arthur Bradette	Liberal	Cochrane	June 12, 1953	St. Laurent	September 12, 1961

David Braley	Conservative	Ontario	May 20, 2010	Harper	November 30, 2013

William Henry Brouse	Independent Reformer	Prescott	August 9, 1878	Mackenzie	August 23, 1881

George Brown	Liberal	Lambton	December 16, 1873	Mackenzie	May 9, 1880

William Brunt	Progressive Conservative	Hanover	October 12, 1957	Diefenbaker	July 7, 1962

Harcourt Burland Bull	Conservative	Hamilton	February 24, 1879	Macdonald	August 12, 1881

Asa Allworth Burnham	Conservative	Ontario	October 23, 1867	Royal Proclamation	May 10, 1873

Alexander Campbell	Conservative	Cataraqui	October 23, 1867	Royal Proclamation	February 7, 1887

Archibald Campbell	Liberal	Toronto West	November 22, 1907	Laurier	January 15, 1913

Gordon Peter Campbell	Liberal	Toronto	February 19, 1943	King	January 16, 1964

John Carling	Liberal-Conservative	London	April 27, 1891 April 23, 1896	Macdonald Bowell	February 17, 1892 November 6, 1911

Richard John Cartwright	Liberal	Oxford	September 20, 1904	Laurier	September 24, 1912

Charles Eusèbe Casgrain	Conservative	Windsor	January 12, 1887	Macdonald	March 8, 1907

Marie-Paule Charette-Poulin	Liberal	Northern Ontario	September 22, 1995	Chrétien	April 17, 2015

Lionel Choquette	Progressive Conservative	Ottawa East	January 31, 1958	Diefenbaker	March 6, 1981

David Christie	Liberal	Erie	October 23, 1867	Royal Proclamation	December 15, 1880

Francis Clemow	Conservative	Rideau	February 3, 1885	Macdonald	May 28, 1902

Thomas Coffey	Liberal	London	March 12, 1903	Laurier	June 8, 1914

John Joseph Connolly	Liberal	Ottawa West	June 12, 1953	St. Laurent	October 31, 1981

Anne Cools	Independent Senators Group	Toronto Centre Toronto Centre-York3	January 13, 1984	Trudeau, P. E.	August 12, 2018

Henry Corby	Conservative	Belleville	October 17, 1912	Borden	April 23, 1917

Louis Côté	Conservative	Ottawa East	December 30, 1933	Bennett	February 2, 1943

George Albertus Cox	Liberal	Saugeen	November 13, 1896	Laurier	January 16, 1914

George Crawford	Conservative	Ontario	October 23, 1867	Royal Proclamation	July 4, 1870

David Croll	Liberal	Toronto-Spadina	July 28, 1955	St. Laurent	June 11, 1991

Thomas Wilson Crothers	Conservative	Ontario	October 3, 1921	Meighen	December 10, 1921

Keith Davey	Liberal	York	February 24, 1966	Pearson	July 1, 1996

Rupert Davies	Liberal	Kingston	November 19, 1942	King	March 11, 1967

Robert de Cotret	Progressive Conservative	Ottawa	June 5, 1979	Clark	January 14, 1980

Daniel Derbyshire	Liberal	Brockville	November 22, 1907	Laurier	June 18, 1916

Jean Noël Desmarais	Progressive Conservative	Sudbury	June 4, 1993	Mulroney	July 25, 1995

Walter Hamilton Dickson	Conservative	Niagara	October 23, 1867	Royal Proclamation	February 19, 1884

Consiglio Di Nino	Conservative	Ontario	August 30, 1990	Mulroney	June 30, 2012

John Dobson	Conservative	Lindsay	February 23, 1892	Abbott	January 27, 1907

James J. Donnelly	Conservative	South Bruce	May 26, 1913	Borden	October 20, 1948

Richard Doyle	Progressive Conservative	North York	March 19, 1985	Mulroney	March 10, 1998

Joseph James Duffus	Liberal	Peterborough West	February 15, 1940	King	February 7, 1957

William Cameron Edwards	Liberal	Russell	March 17, 1903	Laurier	September 17, 1921

Art Eggleton	Liberal	Ontario	March 24, 2005	Martin	September 29, 2018

John Elliott	Liberal	Middlesex	January 29, 1940	King	December 20, 1941

Tobias C. Enverga	Conservative	Ontario	September 6, 2012	Harper	November 16, 2017

William Daum Euler	Liberal	Waterloo	May 11, 1940	King	July 15, 1961

Trevor Eyton	Conservative	Ontario	September 23, 1990	Mulroney	July 12, 2009

Iva Campbell Fallis	Conservative	Peterborough	July 20, 1935	Bennett	March 7, 1956

Thomas Farquhar	Liberal	Algoma	September 10, 1948	King	September 27, 1962

John Ferguson	Conservative	Ontario	October 1, 1892	Abbott	September 22, 1896

Doug Finley	Conservative	Ontario-South Coast	August 27, 2009	Harper	May 11, 2013

Isobel Finnerty	Liberal	Ontario	September 2, 1999	Chrétien	July 15, 2005

John Henry Fisher	Conservative	Ontario	July 26, 1917	Borden	December 1, 1933

Billa Flint	Liberal	Trent	October 23, 1867	Royal Proclamation	June 14, 1894

Gordon Fogo	Liberal	Carleton	January 25, 1949	St. Laurent	July 6, 1952

Eugene Forsey	Liberal	Nepean	September 7, 1970	Trudeau, P. E.	May 29, 1979

George Foster	Conservative	Toronto	September 22, 1921	Meighen	December 30, 1931

William Fraser	Liberal	Trenton	June 25, 1949	St. Laurent	October 26, 1962

Alfred Ernest Fripp	Conservative	Toronto	December 30, 1933	Bennett	March 25, 1938

Royce Frith	Liberal	Glen Tay	April 5, 1977	Trudeau, P. E.	August 29, 1994

Francis Theodore Frost	Liberal	Leeds and Grenville	March 12, 1903	Laurier	August 26, 1908

George Taylor Fulford	Liberal	Brockville	January 29, 1900	Laurier	October 15, 1905

Jean-Robert Gauthier	Liberal	Ontario (1994.11.23-2001.12.03) Ottawa-Vanier (2001.12.04-2004.10.22)	November 23, 1994	Chrétien	October 22, 2004

Irving Gerstein	Conservative	Ontario	January 2, 2009	Harper	February 10, 2016

Thomas Nicholson Gibbs	Liberal-Conservative	Newmarket	April 3, 1880	Macdonald	April 7, 1883

William Gibson	Liberal	Lincoln	February 11, 1902	Laurier	May 4, 1914

Robert Gladstone	Liberal	Wellington South	September 7, 1949	St. Laurent	June 1, 1951

John Morrow Godfrey	Liberal	Rosedale	October 5, 1973	Trudeau, P. E.	June 28, 1987

William Henry Golding	Liberal	Huron-Perth	June 25, 1949	St. Laurent	December 31, 1961

George Gordon	Conservative	Nipissing	October 17, 1912	Borden	February 3, 1942

James Robert Gowan	Liberal-Conservative	Barrie	January 29, 1885	Macdonald	February 1, 1907

Jerry Grafstein	Liberal	Metro Toronto	January 13, 1984	Trudeau, P. E.	January 2, 2010

George Perry Graham	Liberal	Eganville	December 20, 1926	King	January 1, 1943

John James Greene	Liberal	Niagara	September 1, 1972	Trudeau, P. E.	October 23, 1978

Allister Grosart	Progressive Conservative	Pickering	September 24, 1962	Diefenbaker	December 13, 1981

Stanley Haidasz	Liberal	Toronto-Parkdale	March 23, 1978	Trudeau, P. E.	March 4, 1998

John Hamilton	Conservative	Kingston	October 23, 1867	Royal Proclamation	October 10, 1882

Mac Harb	Liberal/Independent	Ontario	September 9, 2003	Chrétien	August 26, 2013

Arthur Charles Hardy	Liberal	Leeds	February 10, 1922	King	March 13, 1962

Salter Hayden	Liberal	Toronto	February 9, 1940	King	November 1, 1983

Andrew Haydon	Liberal	Ottawa	March 10, 1924	King	November 10, 1932

Horatio Clarence Hocken	Conservative	Toronto	December 30, 1933	Bennett	February 18, 1937

Adam Hope	Liberal	Hamilton	January 3, 1877	MacKenzie	August 7, 1882

Henry Herbert Horsey	Liberal	Prince Edward	December 14, 1928	King	January 6, 1942

Raoul Hurtubise	Liberal	Nipissing	June 9, 1945	King	January 31, 1955

Robert Jaffray	Liberal	Toronto	March 8, 1906	Laurier	December 16, 1914

Lyman Melvin Jones	Liberal	Toronto	January 21, 1901	Laurier	April 15, 1917

James Kelleher	Conservative	Ontario	September 23, 1990	Mulroney	October 2, 2005

William McDonough Kelly	Progressive Conservative	Port Severn	December 23, 1982	Trudeau, P. E.	July 21, 2000

Albert Edward Kemp	Conservative	Toronto	November 4, 1921	Meighen	August 12, 1929

Betty Kennedy	Liberal	Ontario	June 20, 2000	Chrétien	January 4, 2001

Colin Kenny	Liberal	Rideau	June 29, 1984	Trudeau, P. E.	February 2, 2018

Wilbert Keon	Conservative	Ottawa	September 27, 1990	Mulroney	May 17, 2010

James Kirkpatrick Kerr	Liberal	Toronto	March 12, 1903	Laurier	December 4, 1916

William Kerr	Liberal	Northumberland	March 15, 1899	Laurier	November 22, 1906

Mary Elizabeth Kinnear	Liberal	Welland	April 6, 1967	Pearson	April 3, 1973

Vim Kochhar	Conservative	Ontario	January 29, 2010	Harper	September 21, 2011

Joseph-Henri-Gustave Lacasse	Liberal	Essex	January 10, 1928	King	January 18, 1953

John Keith McBroom Laird	Liberal	Windsor	April 6, 1967	Pearson	January 12, 1982

Norman Platt Lambert	Liberal	Ottawa	January 20, 1938	King	November 4, 1965

George Landerkin	Liberal	Grey	February 16, 1901	Laurier	October 10, 1903

Daniel Lang	Liberal	South York	February 14, 1964	Pearson	June 13, 1994

Laurier LaPierre	Liberal	Ontario	June 13, 2001	Chrétien	November 21, 2004

Marjory LeBreton	Conservative	Ontario	June 18, 1993	Mulroney	July 4, 2015

Elijah Leonard	Liberal	London	October 23, 1867	Royal Proclamation	May 14, 1891

Thomas D'Arcy Leonard	Liberal	Toronto-Rosedale	July 28, 1955	St. Laurent	April 29, 1970

John Lewis	Liberal	East Toronto	September 5, 1925	King	May 18, 1935

Edgar Sydney Little	Liberal	London	January 10, 1928	King	December 22, 1943

George Lynch-Staunton	Conservative	Hamilton	January 20, 1917	Borden	March 19, 1940

John Macdonald	Independent Liberal	Ontario	November 9, 1887	Macdonald	February 4, 1890

William Ross Macdonald	Liberal	Brantford	June 12, 1953	St. Laurent	December 22, 1967

Angus Claude Macdonell	Conservative	Toronto South	August 1, 1917	Borden	January 1, 1921

Archibald Hayes Macdonell	Conservative	Toronto South	November 7, 1921	Meighen	November 12, 1939

Donald MacInnes	Liberal-Conservative	Burlington	December 24, 1881	Macdonald	December 2, 1900

David Lewis Macpherson	Conservative	Saugeen	October 23, 1867	Royal Proclamation	August 16, 1896

Duncan Kenneth MacTavish	Liberal	Ontario	June 11, 1963	Pearson	November 15, 1963

Frank Mahovlich	Liberal	Toronto	June 11, 1998	Chrétien	January 10, 2013

Marian Maloney	Liberal	Surprise Lake	June 11, 1998	Chrétien	August 16, 1999

Lorna Marsden	Liberal	Toronto-Taddle Creek	January 24, 1984	Trudeau, P. E.	August 31, 1992

Duncan Marshall	Liberal	Peel	January 20, 1938	King	January 16, 1946

Paul Martin Sr.	Liberal	Windsor-Walkerville	April 20, 1968	Trudeau, P. E.	October 30, 1974

James Mason	Conservative	Toronto	May 26, 1913	Borden	July 16, 1918

Roderick Matheson	Conservative	Ontario	October 23, 1867	Royal Proclamation	January 13, 1873

Alexander McCall	Conservative	Simcoe	May 26, 1913	Borden	June 10, 1925

Lachlin McCallum	Liberal-Conservative	Monck	February 4, 1887	Macdonald	January 13, 1903

Archibald McCoig	Liberal	Kent	January 4, 1922	King	November 21, 1927

Walter McCrea	Liberal	Ontario	October 23, 1867	Royal Proclamation	January 5, 1871

Malcolm Wallace McCutcheon	Progressive Conservative	Gormley	August 9, 1962	Diefenbaker	May 13, 1968

Donald McDonald	Liberal	Ontario	October 23, 1867	Royal Proclamation	January 20, 1879

William Henry McGuire	Liberal	East York	December 20, 1926	King	October 31, 1957

George McHugh	Liberal	Victoria	January 21, 1901	Laurier	November 28, 1926

George McIlraith	Liberal	Ottawa Valley	April 27, 1972	Trudeau, P. E.	July 29, 1983

George Crawford McKindsey	Conservative	Milton	January 11, 1884	Macdonald	February 12, 1901

Peter McLaren	Conservative	Perth	February 21, 1890	Macdonald	May 23, 1919

William McMaster	Liberal	Midland	October 23, 1867	Royal Proclamation	September 22, 1887

Donald McMillan	Conservative	Alexandria	January 11, 1884	Macdonald	July 26, 1914

James McMullen	Liberal	North Wellington	February 11, 1902	Laurier	March 18, 1913

Arthur Meighen	Conservative	St. Mary's	March 3, 1932	Bennett	January 16, 1942

Michael Meighen	Conservative	St. Mary's	September 27, 1990	Mulroney	February 6, 2012

Don Meredith	Non-affiliated	Ontario	December 20, 2010	Harper	May 10, 2017

Samuel Merner	Conservative	Hamburg	January 12, 1887	Macdonald	August 11, 1908

David Mills	Liberal	Bothwell	November 13, 1896	Laurier	February 7, 1902

Samuel Mills	Conservative	Ontario	October 23, 1867	Royal Proclamation	January 24, 1874

John Milne	Conservative	Hamilton	December 3, 1915	Borden	March 4, 1922

Lorna Milne	Liberal	Brampton (1995.09.22-1999.11.01) Peel County (1999.11.02-2009.12.13)	September 22, 1995	Chrétien	December 13, 2009

Oliver Mowat	Liberal	Ontario	July 15, 1896	Laurier	November 18, 1897

Robert Alexander Mulholland	Conservative	Port Hope	March 12, 1918	Borden	October 1, 1927

James Murdock	Liberal	Parkdale	March 20, 1930	King	May 15, 1949

Charles Murphy	Liberal	Russell	September 5, 1925	King	November 24, 1935

Lowell Murray	Progressive Conservative	Pakenham	September 13, 1979	Clark	September 26, 2011

Nancy Ruth	Conservative	Cluny	March 24, 2005	Martin	January 6, 2017

Joan Neiman	Liberal	Peel	September 1, 1972	Trudeau, P. E.	September 9, 1995

Frederic Thomas Nicholls	Conservative	Toronto	January 20, 1917	Borden	October 25, 1921

Joseph Northwood	Liberal-Conservative	Lambton	May 19, 1880	Macdonald	October 29, 1886

Michael John O'Brien	Liberal	Renfrew	September 1, 1918	Borden	September 1, 1925

Frank Patrick O'Connor	Liberal	Scarborough Junction	December 6, 1935	King	August 21, 1939

John O'Donohoe	Liberal-Conservative	Erie	May 21, 1882	Macdonald	December 7, 1902

Grattan O'Leary	Progressive Conservative	Carleton	September 24, 1962	Diefenbaker	April 7, 1976

Frederick Forsyth Pardee	Liberal	Lambton	March 11, 1922	King	February 4, 1927

Norman McLeod Paterson	Liberal	Milton	February 9, 1940	King	June 18, 1981

Landon Pearson	Liberal	Ontario	September 15, 1994	Chrétien	November 16, 2005

Ebenezer Perry	Conservative	Ontario	February 2, 1871	Macdonald	May 1, 1876

Michael Pitfield	Independent	Ottawa-Vanier	December 22, 1982	Trudeau, P. E.	June 1, 2010

Josiah Burr Plumb	Conservative	Ontario	February 8, 1883	Macdonald	March 12, 1888

Vivienne Poy	Liberal	Toronto	September 17, 1998	Chrétien	September 17, 2012

Clive Pringle	Conservative	Cobourg	January 8, 1917	Borden	May 2, 1920

William Proudfoot	Liberal	Huron	November 6, 1919	Borden	December 3, 1922

James Palmer Rankin	Liberal	Perth North	September 9, 1925	King	June 15, 1934

Valentine Ratz	Liberal	Parkhill	January 18, 1909	Laurier	March 1, 1924

Robert Read	Conservative	Quinté	February 24, 1871	Macdonald	June 29, 1896

David Reesor	Liberal	King's	October 23, 1867	Royal Proclamation	January 1, 1901

John Dowsley Reid	Conservative	Grenville	September 22, 1921	Meighen	August 26, 1929

Henry Westman Richardson	Conservative	Kingston	January 20, 1917	Borden	October 27, 1918

Gideon Robertson	Conservative	Welland	January 20, 1917	Borden	August 5, 1933

John Alexander Robertson	Progressive Conservative	Kenora-Rainy River	November 29, 1962	Diefenbaker	February 19, 1965

Arthur Roebuck	Liberal	Toronto-Trinity	April 18, 1945	King	November 17, 1971

George William Ross	Liberal	Middlesex	January 15, 1907	Laurier	March 7, 1914

John Ross	Conservative	Ontario	October 23, 1867	Royal Proclamation	January 31, 1871

Bob Runciman	Conservative	Thousand Islands and Rideau Lakes	January 29, 2010	Harper	August 10, 2017

William Eli Sanford	Conservative	Hamilton	February 8, 1887	Macdonald	July 10, 1899

Richard William Scott	Liberal	Ottawa	March 13, 1874	Mackenzie	April 23, 1913

Hugh Segal	Conservative	Kingston-Frontenac-Leeds	August 2, 2005	Martin	June 15, 2014

Asha Seth	Conservative	Ontario	January 6, 2012	Harper	December 15, 2014

Benjamin Seymour	Conservative	Newcastle	October 23, 1867	Royal Proclamation	March 23, 1880

James Shaw	Conservative	Ontario	October 23, 1867	Royal Proclamation	February 6, 1878

John Simpson	Liberal	Bowmanville	October 23, 1867	Royal Proclamation	March 23, 1885

Ian David Sinclair	Liberal	Halton	December 23, 1983	Trudeau, P. E.	September 27, 1988

James Skead	Conservative	Rideau	October 23, 1867 December 23, 1881	Royal Proclamation Macdonald	January 20, 1881 July 5, 1884

David Smith	Liberal	Cobourg	June 25, 2002	Chrétien	May 16, 2016

Ernest D'Israeli Smith	Conservative	Wentworth	May 26, 1913	Borden	January 10, 1946

Frank Smith	Conservative	Toronto	February 2, 1871	Macdonald	January 1, 1900

James Houston Spence	Liberal	North Bruce	January 10, 1928	King	February 21, 1939

Thomas Simpson Sproule	Conservative	Grey	December 3, 1915	Borden	November 10, 1917

Richard Stanbury	Liberal	York Centre	February 13, 1968	Pearson	May 2, 1998

Peter Stollery	Liberal	Bloor & Yonge	July 2, 1981	Trudeau, P. E.	November 29, 2010

Joseph Albert Sullivan	Progressive Conservative	North York	October 12, 1957	Diefenbaker	February 18, 1985

Michael Sullivan	Conservative	Kingston	January 29, 1885	Macdonald	November 29, 1912

Donald Sutherland	Conservative	Oxford	July 20, 1935	Bennett	January 1, 1949

George Taylor	Conservative	Leeds	November 14, 1911	Borden	March 26, 1919

William Horace Taylor	Liberal	Norfolk	April 18, 1945	King	June 1, 1966

Andy Thompson	Liberal	Dovercourt	April 6, 1967	Pearson	March 23, 1998

James Tunney	Liberal	Grafton	March 8, 2001	Chrétien	June 16, 2002

Charles Turner	Liberal	London	July 9, 1984	Turner	March 24, 1991

James Turner	Liberal-Conservative	Ontario	January 11, 1884	Macdonald	October 10, 1889

Alexander Vidal	Conservative	Sarnia	January 15, 1873	Macdonald	November 18, 1906

David James Walker	Progressive Conservative	Toronto	February 4, 1963	Diefenbaker	September 30, 1989

John Webster	Conservative	Brockville	March 12, 1918	Borden	December 1, 1928

Eugene Whelan	Liberal	South Western Ontario	August 9, 1996	Chrétien	July 11, 1999

George Stanley White	Progressive Conservative	Hastings-Frontenac	September 20, 1957	Diefenbaker	November 17, 1972

Gerald Verner White	Conservative	Pembroke	November 6, 1919	Borden	October 24, 1948

Harry Albert Willis	Progressive Conservative	Peel	June 15, 1962	Diefenbaker	March 23, 1972

Cairine Wilson	Liberal	Rockcliffe	February 15, 1930	King	March 3, 1962

John Henry Wilson	Liberal	St. Thomas	March 8, 1904	Laurier	July 3, 1912

Lois Miriam Wilson	Independent	Toronto	June 11, 1998	Chrétien	April 8, 2002

Andrew Trew Wood	Liberal	Hamilton	January 21, 1901	Laurier	January 21, 1903

Allan Lee Woodrow	Liberal	Toronto Centre	May 19, 1953	St. Laurent	March 3, 1966

Sentence(s)

James Cox Aikins was an Ontario senator.

final_sentence: James Cox Aikins was an Ontario senator.