William D. Staples (1868-1929)

Farmer, MP (1904-1908), MP (1908-1911), MP (1911-1917).

Born at Fleetwood, Ontario on 10 November 1868, son of James Staples and Jane Evans, he attended school at Fleetwood and Lindsay, Ontario and Winnipeg, becoming a farmer at Treherne, Manitoba. He was a Councillor and Reeve of the Rural Municipality of South Norfolk, was elected to the House of Commons for Macdonald in 1904, beating J. Riddell, and was re-elected in 1908 and 1911. He was appointed a Grain Commissioner for Canada in April 1912. He died on 21 April 1929 at Elm Creek, Manitoba.

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