death_place death_date predecessor successor imagesize office birth_date term_start article_title term_end name
ottawa 27 august 1951 e.a. bourque charlotte whitton 150 mayor of ottawa 1898 1951 grenville goodwin
 1951 grenville goodwin
grenville goodwin

grenville w. `` gren '' goodwin -lrb- c. 1898 -- 27 august 1951 -rrb- was mayor of ottawa for several months in 1951 .
his hometown was prescott , ontario and he was an optometrist by profession .
goodwin defeated incumbent mayor e.a. bourque in december 1950 by approximately 10,000 votes .
but goodwin 's term in office was cut short at age 53 .
he had an unexpected heart failure and died shortly afterwards at the ottawa civic hospital .
charlotte whitton was immediately appointed the city 's next mayor .
