riding death_place death_date predecessor birth_place successor profession party birth_date spouse term_start article_title term_end name
yukon yukon -- mackenzie river -lrb- 1949 & ndash ; 1953 -lrb- -rrb- 1953 & ndash ; 1957 -rrb- for west vancouver , british columbia 30 november 1979 george black revelstoke , british columbia erik nielsen notary liberal party of canada 8 july 1897 della louise rapuzzi 1949 james aubrey simmons
 1957 james a. simmons
james aubrey simmons

james aubrey simmons -lrb- july 8 , 1897 -- november 30 , 1979 -rrb- was a canadian politician , notary and magistrate .
born in revelstoke , british columbia , simmons would go on to sit many times in the canadian house of commons representing the yukon territory .
a member of the liberal party , his first win came in 1949 when he represented the federal constituency of yukon-mackenzie river , an electoral district newly crafted out of the yukon electoral district in 1947 .
simmons easily won the election .
his rival , arthur massey berry , an independent , lost by over 1,000 votes .
by 1953 , at the next federal election , the riding of yukon-mackenzie river was abolished and transformed again into the yukon electoral district .
running again for a seat in the house , simmons won the 1953 election for the yukon .
in parliament , simmons sponsored a bill for the creation of an alaska-yukon pipeline .
he was re-elected in 1957 federal election , but his election was declared void and he lost the subsequent by-election .
he tried in the 1958 federal election to regain his seat but was again defeated and he never again went for a seat in the house of commons .
he died in 1979 following a stroke .
