- Leslie McDorman
Leslie McDorman (died May 1966) was a politician in
Manitoba ,Canada . He served in theLegislative Assembly of Manitoba from 1945 to 1949 as a Liberal-Progressive. He was elected to the Manitoba legislature in the 1945 provincial election, representing the constituency of Brandon.McDorman's won the seat as the result of a local division in the Cooperative Commwealth Federation.
Dwight Johnson had previously been elected for Brandon as a CCF candidate in a 1943by-election , but was suspended from the party on suspicions of holdingcommunist sympathies. He ran for re-election as an "Independent CCF" candidate, and the local CCF organization fielded a candidate against him. This division in the left allowed McDorman to win a fairly easy victory.He served as a government backbencher for the next four years, supporting the administrations of
Stuart Garson and Douglas Campbell. McDorman did not seek re-election in 1949.
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