Clare Mapledoram

Clare Edgar Mapledoram (March 10, 1903 – October 9, 1983) was a politician in Ontario, Canada. He was a Progressive Conservative member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1951 to 1959 who represented the northern Ontario riding of Fort William. He was a cabinet minister in the government of Leslie Frost.

Background Mapledoram was born in Fort William, Ontario, the son of William James Mapledoram (1871-1937), and grandson of William Clare Currie Mapledoram (1847-1900), a native of Taunton, England, who served one year as a Fort William alderman in 1893. In 1927, he married Mary Dorica. Mapledoram was a personnel manager for the Great Lakes Paper Company. He and his wife Mary raised four children, three sons and a daughter. He died in Thunder Bay at the age of 80.

Politics Mapledoram served as reeve for Neebing Township from 1947 to 1951. He also served as president of the local Chamber of Commerce. He was re-elected in 1955.

He was Minister of Lands and Forests in the provincial cabinet from July 1954 to 1958, but resigned from cabinet after he was implicated in the Northern Ontario Natural Gas scandal. He was defeated in the 1959 election by Liberal John Chapple. Mapledoram was the second person from Fort William to join the Ontario cabinet, the first being Harry Mills, Minister of Mines 1919-1923.

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