riding death_date predecessor successor birth_place imagesize profession party birth_date term_start birthname article_title term_end name
brantford 23 april 1942 william foster cockshutt riding dissolved london , england 150px merchant , postmaster liberal 24 march 1855 december 1921 william gawtress raymond william gawtress raymond
 october 1925 william gawtress raymond
william gawtress raymond

william gawtress raymond -lrb- 24 march 1855 -- 23 april 1942 -rrb- was a liberal party member of the canadian house of commons .
he was born in london , england and became a merchant and postmaster .
in 1890 , raymond became an alderman in brantford , ontario and served in that capacity until 1895 .
in 1898 and 1899 he was mayor of that city .
he was elected to parliament at the brantford riding in the 1921 general election .
after serving his only federal term , the 14th canadian parliament , riding boundaries were changed and raymond was defeated by robert edwy ryerson of the conservatives at the new brantford city riding in the 1925 federal election .
