constituency predecessor successor death_date birth_place death_place party office birth_date term_start residence spouse article_title term_end name occupation
york south york south joseph w. noseworthy ted jolliffe david lewis donald c. macdonald 28 may 1971 london , england borough of york , ontario progressive conservative party of ontario member of parliament member of provincial parliament 04 june 1898 1957 1951 borough of york , ontario marie beech -lrb- née newman -rrb- william george beech
 1962 1955 william george beech industrial engineer/businessman
william george beech

william george beech -lrb- june 4 , 1898 -- may 28 , 1971 -rrb- was a mid-20th century canadian politician that represented york township at all three levels of government .
he was born in london , england and moved to canada with his parents when he was very young .
beech served with the canadian expeditionary force during world war i , joining the army at 16 , and was wounded at vimy ridge .
he was an industrial engineer , and then in 1950 owned a travel agency in the york township .
he was a member of the council for york township and was reeve from 1948 to 1951 .
he defeated ontario co-operative commonwealth federation -lrb- ccf -rrb- leader ted jolliffe to represent york south in the legislative assembly of ontario for the progressive conservative party of ontario in 1951 .
he was defeated by the new ccf leader , donald c. macdonald , in the provincial election held in 1955 but was elected to a seat in the house of commons two years later and again in 1958 .
beech was defeated in his re-election attempt for the federal seat in 1962 by david lewis of the new democratic party -lrb- ndp -rrb- , a future leader of the federal ndp .
it was notable that beech won or lost his seats to three different leaders of the ccf/ndp .
he ran again , and was defeated in the april 1963 canadian general election .
he died on may 28 , 1971 , in the borough of york -lrb- as york township was renamed in 1967 -rrb- , after a brief illness .
