riding death_place death_date birth_place profession party birth_date term_start article_title term_end name
brantford brantford , ontario 24 august 1996 england contractor progressive conservative 30 july 1906 june 1957 jack wratten
 june 1962 jack wratten
jack wratten

jack wratten -lrb- 30 july 1906 -- 24 august 1996 -rrb- was a progressive conservative party member of the canadian house of commons .
he was born in england and became a contractor by career .
he was first elected at the brantford riding in the 1957 general election and served two terms until his defeat in the 1962 election .
during his second term in the house of commons in 1961 , wratten attempted to establish a national holiday in honour of canada 's first prime minister by supporting a parliamentary bill .
had this become law , john a. macdonald day would have been observed each year on a monday in mid-february .
macdonald 's birthdate in january was deemed too soon after the christmas and new year 's holiday period for this purpose .
