riding death_date birth_place profession party birth_date term_start article_title term_end name
huron north huron 16 april 1969 brussels , ontario farmer national government progressive conservative 22 january 1889 march 1940 august 1953 elston cardiff
 august 1953 september 1965 lewis elston cardiff
elston cardiff

lewis elston cardiff -lrb- 22 january 1889 -- 16 april 1969 -rrb- was a progressive conservative party member of the canadian house of commons .
he was born in brussels , ontario and initially chose farming as his career .
from 1932 to 1940 , elston cardiff was reeve of ontario 's morris township .
after this he entered federal politics with his election at the huron north riding in the 1940 general election .
he became a member of parliament under the national government party banner which was used by the conservative party at that time .
cardiff became a progressive conservative member when that party adopted this new name in 1942 .
cardiff was re-elected to successive parliament terms at huron north in 1945 and 1949 .
he was then re-elected at huron riding after electoral district boundary changes , winning in 1953 , 1957 , 1958 , 1962 and 1963 .
the 26th canadian parliament marked his final term in office and cardiff did not seek another term in the 1965 election .
during his time in federal office , cardiff was party whip in 1957 and 1958 .
for two years from november 1959 he served as parliamentary secretary to the minister of agriculture , then from january to april 1962 as parliamentary secretary to the minister of national health and welfare .
