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Bill Davis
Lawyer, Politician
1929 –
Who is Bill Davis?
William Grenville "Bill" Davis, PC CC OOnt QC was the 18th Premier of Ontario, Canada, from 1971 to 1985. Davis was first elected as the MPP for Peel in the 1959 provincial election where he was a backbencher in Leslie Frost's government. Under John Robarts, he was a cabinet minister overseeing the education portfolio. He succeeded Robarts as Premier of Ontario and held the position until resigning in 1985.
In a 2012 edition, the Institute for Research on Public Policy's magazine, Policy Options, named Davis the second-best Canadian premier of the last forty years, beaten only by Peter Lougheed.
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- Born
- Jul 30, 1929
Brampton - Also known as
- William Grenville Davis
- Religion
- United Church of Canada
- Profession
- Education
- University of Toronto
- Osgoode Hall Law School
- Lived in
- Brampton
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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