Robert Edwy Ryerson
Canadian politician
Intro | Canadian politician | |
Places | Canada | |
was | Politician | |
Work field | Politics | |
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Birth | 12 August 1865 | |
Death | 12 October 1958 (aged 93 years) |
Robert Edwy Ryerson (12 August 1865 – 12 October 1958) was a Conservative member of the Canadian House of Commons. He was born in Brant County, Canada West and became a grocer and merchant.
Ryerson attended public school at Brantford. He became an associate manager of grocery firm Ryerson Brothers and served three terms as a Brantford alderman.
He was first elected to Parliament at the Brantford City riding in the 1925 general election and re-elected there in 1926 and 1930. Ryerson was defeated in the 1935 federal election by William Ross Macdonald of the Liberal party.