riding death_date predecessor successor birth_place imagesize profession party birth_date spouse term_start birthname article_title term_end name
the battlefords 22 january 1955 joseph needham max campbell exeter , ontario 150px businessman , school principal liberal 9 september 1878 ida c. phillips march 1940 john albert gregory john gregory -lrb- politician -rrb-
 june 1945 john gregory
john gregory -lrb- politician -rrb-

john albert gregory -lrb- 9 september 1878 -- 22 january 1955 -rrb- was a canadian politician , serving in municipal , provincial and federal governments .
he was born in exeter , ontario and became a businessman and school principal by career .
his father , thomas gregory , had been principal of the high school in exeter .
after attending schools in exeter , goderich and london , he moved to western canada for law studies .
for twelve terms , he was mayor of the community of north battleford , saskatchewan .
gregory was also a liberal member of the legislative assembly of saskatchewan from 1934 to 1940 at the battlefords provincial riding .
he was first elected as a liberal party candidate for the house of commons at the the battlefords riding in the 1940 general election .
after serving one term in the house of commons , gregory was defeated by max campbell of the co-operative commonwealth federation in the 1945 federal election .
