page_title: List of people from Hamilton, Ontario
section_title: Politics
hierarchical_section_title: List of people from Hamilton, Ontario / Politics
caption_attribution_description: Hon. Thomas Bain (Speaker of the House of Commons) Dec. 14, 1834 - 1915
context_page_description: The following people were born in, residents of, or otherwise closely connected to the city of Hamilton, Ontario.
context_section_description: Dominic Agostino (1959–2004), member of Provincial Parliament of Ontario for Hamilton East from 1995 until his death in 2004; the first Liberal MPP in that riding since 1967
  Lincoln Alexander (1922–2012), the 24th Lieutenant-Governor of Ontario from 1985 to 1991 and former Governor of the Canadian Unity Council; became Canada's first black Member of Parliament when he was elected to the House of Commons of Canada in 1968 as a member of the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada; an expressway on Hamilton Mountain was named the Lincoln Alexander Parkway in his honour
  Thomas Bain (1834–1915), speaker of the House of Commons
  Richard Beasley (1761–1842), soldier, political figure, farmer and businessman in Upper Canada
  Marie Bountrogianni (1956– ), Ed.D., a former member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario, and cabinet minister in the government of Liberal Premier Dalton McGuinty
  Isaac Buchanan (1810–1883), businessman and political figure in Canada West
  Sarmite Bulte (1953– ), Latvian-Canadian lawyer, advocate and politician; member of the Liberal Party; represented the Toronto riding of Parkdale-High Park in the House of Commons through three successive parliaments from 1997 to 2006
  Richard Butson (1922–2015), medical officer and politician (Ancaster)
  Ivan John "Jack" Cable (1934– ), politician and the former Commissioner of the Yukon (2000–2005)
  Chris Charlton (1963– ), MA, Member of Parliament in the 2006 federal election for Hamilton Mountain
  David Christopherson (1954– ), represents the riding of Hamilton Centre in the House of Commons (2004– )
  Mark Coakley, Hamilton-based activist, lawyer, author and chair of Environment Hamilton
  Sheila Copps (1952– ), PC, HBA, LL.D (hc), journalist and former politician; a second-generation member of a political family that has dominated Hamilton-area politics on the municipal, provincial and federal levels
  Victor K. Copps (1919–1988), politician and Mayor of Hamilton; the city's landmark sports arena, Copps Coliseum (now FirstOntario Centre) was named in his honour
  Adam Crooks (1827–1885), LLB, an Ontario Member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario for Toronto West, 1871–1874; moved to the riding of Oxford South, 1875–1886; MLA for the Ontario Liberal Party
  Thomas Mayne Daly, Sr. (1827–1885), businessman and political figure in Canada West (later Ontario); represented the riding of Perth North in the House of Commons and in the Ontario Provincial Parliament
  Ellen Fairclough (1905–2004), first female member of the Canadian Cabinet; the Ellen Fairclough Building in Hamilton is named after her
  Colin Campbell Ferrie (1808–1856), Hamilton's first Mayor
  Rolf Gerstenberger, president of the United Steelworkers Local 1005 at Stelco's Hilton Works in Hamilton; prominent member of the Communist Party of Canada (Marxist–Leninist)
  Sir John Morison Gibson (1842–1929), lawyer, politician, businessman, Lieutenant Governor of Ontario 1908–1914
  George Hamilton (1788–1836), settler and city founder
  Sir John Strathearn Hendrie (1857–1923), Lieutenant Governor of Ontario from 1914 to 1919
  Adam Inch (1857–1933), dairy farmer, politician; Inch Park neighbourhood on Hamilton Mountain is named after him
  Stan Keyes (Stanley Kazmierczak Keyes) (1953– ), diplomat and former politician
  Sam Lawrence (1879–1959), mayor and pioneer of Labour rights in Hamilton
  William Findlay Maclean (1854–1929), politician, Conservative MP for York East and York South, served for 34 years
  Allan MacNab (Sir Allan Napier MacNab) (1798–1862), soldier, lawyer, businessman, knight and former Prime Minister of Upper Canada; MacNab Street in Hamilton is named after him
  Quinto Martini (politician) (1908–1975), first Italian Canadian elected to Parliament, where he represented Hamilton East from 1957 until he was defeated by Liberal John Munro in 1962
  Catherine McKenna (1981– ), MP for Ottawa Centre, Minister of the Environment and Climate Change
  James McMillan (1838–1902), U.S. Senator from the state of Michigan
  Thomas McQuesten (1882–1948), athlete, militiaman, lawyer, politician and government appointee who lived in Hamilton; h
caption: Thomas Bain
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