Complex sentence: A teacher by profession, Faulkner entered politics as the Liberal candidate in Peterborough, Ontario in the 1962 Canadian election when he came in third behind Progressive Conservative Gordon Fraser and incumbent Walter Pitman of the New Democratic Party.
Split into simpler sentences: A teacher by profession, Faulkner entered politics as the Liberal candidate in Peterborough, Ontario in the 1962 election. He came in third behind Progressive Conservative candidate Gordon Fraser, and incumbent Walter Pitman of the New Democratic Party.