Randolph Harding | |
Birth Date: | 1914 9, mf=yes |
Birth Place: | Silverton, British Columbia |
Death Place: | Silverton, British Columbia |
Riding: | Kootenay West |
Predecessor: | Herbert Wilfred Herridge |
Successor: | Robert Brisco |
Term Start: | 1968 |
Term End: | 1974 |
Office2: | Member of the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia |
Term Start2: | 1945 |
Term End2: | 1968 |
Profession: | teacher |
Party: | New Democratic Party of Canada |
Randolph Harding (September 17, 1914 - March 3, 1996) was a Canadian politician.
Born in Silverton, British Columbia, Harding was a teacher and a member of the Silverton municipal council. He was elected as the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation candidate to the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia representing Kaslo-Slocan in 1945, and was re-elected in 1949, 1952, 1953, 1956, 1960 and 1963. In 1966 he was re-elected in the riding of Revelstoke-Slocan.
He was elected to the House of Commons of Canada in the 1968 federal election for the British Columbia riding of Kootenay West. A New Democrat, he was re-elected in 1972 and was defeated in 1974.
After leaving federal politics, Harding served as mayor of Silverton and received a long service award from the Union of British Columbia Municipalities.[1]
Harding served in the Canadian Army during World War II.