Jesse Pickard Tripp | |
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Member of Parliament for Assiniboia |
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In office March 1940 – June 1945 |
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Preceded by | James Garfield Gardiner |
Succeeded by | Edward McCullough |
Personal details | |
Born | Jesse Pickard Tripp 7 May 1883 Forest, Ontario |
Died | 1971 (age c. 88) |
Political party | Liberal |
Profession | pharmacist |
Jesse Pickard Tripp (7 May 1883 – 1971) was a Canadian politician serving in municipal, provincial and federal governments. He was born in Forest, Ontario and became a pharmacist by career.
Tripp was mayor of Oxbow, Saskatchewan in 1924 and 1925. In 1925, he became a provincial Liberal member of the Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan and served at Souris riding until 1929. He returned to the Saskatchewan legislature from 1934 to 1938 at Souris-Estevan riding.[1]
He was first elected as a Liberal party member of the Canadian House of Commons at the Assiniboia riding in the 1940 general election. Tripp was defeated in the 1945 election by Edward McCullough of the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation.