Leonard Burnett
Politician
1845 – 1932
Who was Leonard Burnett?
Leonard Burnett was a politician, farmer and teacher. He was elected to the Canadian House of Commons in the 1896 election as a Member of the Liberal Party in the 1896 election to represent the riding of Ontario South.
The son of Thomas Burnett and Hannah Dickenson, he came to Canada in 1846, was educated in Greenwood, Ontario and Whitby and settled in Greenbank. Burnett taught school for three years.
Prior to his federal political experience, he was councilor for Ontario County then Deputy Reeve for Reach Township, Ontario then reeve.
In 1870, he married Sarah Jane Dryden. Burnett died in Toronto at the age of 87.
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