riding death_date death_place predecessor birth_place successor profession party birth_date term_start birthname article_title term_end name alma_mater
dauphin 20 november 1998 dauphin , manitoba elmer forbes dauphin , manitoba laverne lewycky surgeon , physician progressive conservative 27 september 1918 1968 william gordon ritchie gordon ritchie
 1980 gordon ritchie university of st. andrews
gordon ritchie

william gordon ritchie -lrb- 27 september 1918 -- 20 november 1998 -rrb- was a progressive conservative party member of the house of commons of canada .
he studied mb chb medicine at the university of st andrews school of medicine .
he was a surgeon and physician by career .
ritchie represented the dauphin electoral district where he won office in the 1968 federal election .
he was re-elected in 1972 , 1974 and 1979 .
after serving successive terms from the 28th to the 31st canadian parliaments , ritchie left federal politics in 1980 and did not campaign in that year 's national elections .
ritchie also made one early unsuccessful attempt to win the dauphin seat in the 1957 federal election .
he died in 1998 at dauphin .
