Given the question: Facts: - profession: contractor , farmer - imagesize: 150px - successor: john charles alexander cameron - party: conservative - death date: 14 december 1960 - spouse: ethel m. finley - riding: hastings south - predecessor: riding created - term end: october 1935 - birth date: 6 february 1879 - term start: october 1925 - name: william ernest tummon - birthname: william ernest tummon - birth place: huntingdon township , ontario Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of william ernest tummon .
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william ernest tummon -lrb- 6 february 1879 -- 14 december 1960 -rrb- was a conservative member of the canadian house of commons .he was born in huntingdon township , ontario in hastings county and became a contractor and farmer .tummon attended public and secondary school in hastings county .he was a councillor at huntington township for 14 years and a reeve there for five years .he was first elected to parliament at the hastings south riding in the 1925 general election then re-elected in 1926 and 1930 .tummon was defeated by john charles alexander cameron of the liberal party in the 1935 election .