riding death_date predecessor successor birth_place imagesize profession party birth_date spouse term_start birthname article_title term_end name
kent 1 february 1949 james warren rutherford earl desmond mooresville , ontario 150px implement agent liberal 19 june 1884 ina b. smith december 1939 arthur lisle thompson arthur lisle thompson
 march 1940 arthur lisle thompson
arthur lisle thompson

arthur lisle thompson -lrb- 19 june 1884 -- 1 february 1949 -rrb- was a liberal party member of the canadian house of commons .
he was born in mooresville , ontario and became an implement agent .
thompson was an alderman of chatham , ontario from 1922 to 1925 .
he was the city 's mayor in 1926 and 1927 then city manager from 1928 to 1935 .
he was acclaimed to parliament at the kent riding by in a by-election on 11 december 1939 following the death of incumbent james warren rutherford .
after serving the remainder of the 18th canadian parliament , thompson was defeated by earl desmond of the national government -lrb- conservative -rrb- party .
