About Lorne Hugh Shantz
Lived 1920 – 1999 (aged 79). Lorne Hugh Shantz was a Canadian politician.
Lorne Hugh Shantz (February 4, 1920 – October 2, 1999) was a politician in British Columbia, Canada. He represented North Okanagan in the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia from 1952 to 1963 as a Social Credit member.
He was born in Alsask, Saskatchewan, the son of Jacob Y. Shantz and Emma Fern Lougheed, and was educated in Didsbury and Calgary. Before entering politics, Shantz was an insurance agent. In 1941, he married Genevieve E. Ansley. He ran unsuccessfully for a seat in the British Columbia assembly in 1949. Shantz lived in Langley. He was deputy speaker for the assembly in 1953 and then speaker for the assembly from 1958 to 1963. In 1964, he and his family moved to Prescott, Arizona. His wife, Genevieve, died on August 4, 1968; he remarried to Marilyn (Fenwick) in 1975.
Lorne Shantz died October 2, 1999, in Phoenix, Arizona.
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Lorne Hugh Shantz was born on 4 February 1920 in Alsask.
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Lorne Hugh Shantz died on 30 October 1999 in Phoenix.
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