riding death_date death_place successor birth_place imagesize profession party birth_date term_start article_title term_end name
trinity 1 december 1982 mississauga , ontario arthur roebuck barrie , ontario 150px hockey player liberal 16 may 1904 1935 hugh plaxton
 1940 hugh plaxton
hugh plaxton

hugh john plaxton -lrb- may 16 , 1904 -- december 1 , 1982 -rrb- was a canadian ice hockey player who competed in the 1928 winter olympics and later served in the canadian house of commons .
in 1928 he was a member of the university of toronto grads , the canadian team which won the gold medal .
he also played nhl hockey for the montreal maroons in the 1932-33 season .
after retiring from hockey , plaxton qualified as a lawyer and entered politics .
he was elected to parliament in the 1935 federal election as a liberal mp from the toronto riding of trinity defeating minister of justice and former toronto mayor george reginald geary .
he lost the liberal party nomination in 1940 federal election to former ontario attorney-general arthur roebuck but attempted to return to parliament in the 1945 federal election running in the riding of kingston city where he was defeated by conservative thomas kidd .
plaxton was one of two former hockey players to have been elected a member of parliament for trinity , the other being lionel conacher who was elected as a liberal mp for the riding in 1949 and 1953 .
