Karl Kenneth Homuth

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Karl Kenneth Homuth (December 12, 1893 – March 15, 1951) was an Ontario manufacturer and political figure. He represented Waterloo South in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1919 to 1929 as a Labour-United Farmers party member, then Labour and then was re-elected in the 1919 provincial election as a Conservative member before resigning in 1930 to unsuccessfully seek the federal seat of Waterloo North for the federal Conserviates. He went on to sit in Canadian House of Commons from 1938 to 1951 representing Waterloo South for the Conservative Party of Canada, then National Government and finally Progressive Conservative member.

He was born in Preston, Ontario, the son of Otto Homuth, and was educated there and in Galt. He joined George Pattinson's textile manufacturing company in 1910. In 1917, he left that firm to work in his father's company, taking over its operation in 1928 after his father's death. Homuth served on the town council for Preston from 1917 to 1919. He died in office in 1951.