Arthur Reaume

Who was Arthur Reaume?

Arthur John Reaume was a Canadian politician. He was born at Sandwich, Ontario in 1906.

Reaume was the 22nd mayor of the city of Windsor, Ontario in the 1940s and early 1950s. He ran as a candidate for the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario in the 1943 election but was defeated by the CCF. He broke with the Conservatives when he supported UAW workers at Ford in their fight for the Rand Formula.

In the 1945 and 1948 elections, he ran as a Liberal-Labour candidate, but lost on both attempts. He was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Ontario as a Liberal Member of Provincial Parliament in 1951. He remained in office until the 1967 election.

A pro-labour but otherwise conservative politician, he ran for the Ontario Liberal leadership in 1958 but won only 32 votes and was eliminated on the first ballot along with Liberal-Labour MPP Albert Wren. Arthur Reaume is also Windsor's longest-serving mayor, at 13 years.

He died at a Toronto hospital in 1981.