Gordon Ritchie | |
Birthname: | William Gordon Ritchie |
Birth Date: | 27 September 1918 |
Birth Place: | Dauphin, Manitoba |
Death Place: | Dauphin, Manitoba |
Riding: | Dauphin |
Predecessor: | Elmer Forbes |
Successor: | Laverne Lewycky |
Term Start: | 1968 |
Term End: | 1980 |
Profession: | Surgeon, physician |
Party: | Progressive Conservative |
Alma Mater: | University of St. Andrews |
William Gordon Ritchie (27 September 1918 – 20 November 1998) was a Progressive Conservative party member of the House of Commons of Canada. He studied MB ChB medicine at the University of St Andrews School of Medicine. He was a surgeon and physician by career.
Ritchie represented the Dauphin electoral district where he won office in the 1968 federal election. He was re-elected in 1972, 1974 and 1979. After serving successive terms from the 28th to the 31st Canadian Parliaments, Ritchie left federal politics in 1980 and did not campaign in that year's national elections.
Ritchie also made one early unsuccessful attempt to win the Dauphin seat in the1957 federal election.
He died in 1998 at Dauphin.[1] [2]