Arthur Charles Hardy

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Arthur Charles Hardy, PC (December 3, 1872 – March 13, 1962) was a Canadian politician.

Born in Brantford, Ontario, he ran unsuccessfully for the Canadian House of Commons in the Ontario riding of Leeds in the 1917 federal election. In 1922, he was called to the Canadian Senate representing the senatorial division of Leeds, Ontario. A Liberal, he served forty years until his death in 1962. In 1930, he was the Speaker of the Canadian Senate. Hardy was the son of Ontario Premier Arthur Sturgis Hardy. He married Dorothy Fulford daughter of Senator George Taylor Fulford (of Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for Pale People fame), of Brockville and Mary Wilder White.

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• Synopsis of federal political experience from the Library of Parliament
• Speakers of the Senate biography

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