death_place death_date predecessor birth_place successor party office birth_date term_start article_title term_end name occupation
halifax , nova scotia 4 april 1969 harold connolly allan macdougall butler halifax , nova scotia james h. vaughan gordon stanley kinley nova scotia liberal party mla scotia for halifax north mayor of halifax , nova 6 february 1897 1956 1946 john e. ahern
 1963 1949 john e. ahern journalist
john e. ahern

john edward ahern -lrb- february 6 , 1897 -- april 4 , 1969 -rrb- was a canadian politician .
he represented the electoral district of halifax north in the nova scotia house of assembly from 1956 to 1963 .
he was a member of the nova scotia liberal party .
born in 1897 at halifax , nova scotia , ahern was educated at saint mary 's university and dalhousie law school .
he married ellen bourke in 1927 .
an active participant and promoter of sport in nova scotia , ahern was posthumously inducted into the nova scotia sport hall of fame in 1982 .
ahern was an alderman in halifax from 1941 to 1946 , serving as deputy mayor from 1943 to 1946 .
he served as mayor of halifax from 1946 to 1949 , and returned as an alderman from 1952 to 1956 .
he entered provincial politics in the 1956 election , winning the halifax north riding .
he was re-elected in 1960 .
in the 1963 election , ahern was defeated by progressive conservative james h. vaughan .
ahern died at halifax on april 4 , 1969 .
