Thomas Langton Church

Thomas Langton "Tommy" Church (1870 – February 7 1950) was a Canadian politician.

After serving as Mayor of Toronto from 1915 to 1921, he was elected to the Canadian House of Commons in the 1921 election as a Conservative from the riding of Toronto North. He was defeated in the 1930 election, but returned to Parliament as Member of Parliament (MP) for Toronto East in a 1934 by-election. He remained in the House of Commons until his death in 1950.

As mayor, Church was occasionally mocked in the pages of the Toronto Daily Star by Ernest Hemingway who was, at the time, a reporter for the paper. Late in his career as an MP, Church denounced the newly formed United Nations as "modern tower of Babel", for "which Canada and Great Britain should not allow their interests to be the play thing."

External links

Thomas Langton Church – Parliament of Canada biography

Parliament of Canada
Preceded by Sir George Eulas Foster	Member of Parliament from Toronto North 1921–1925	Succeeded by Electoral district abolished
Preceded by None	Member of Parliament from Toronto Northwest 1925–1930	Succeeded by John Ritchie MacNicol
Preceded by Edmond Baird Ryckman	Member of Parliament from Toronto East 1934–1935	Succeeded by Electoral district abolished
Preceded by None	Member of Parliament from Broadview 1935–1950	Succeeded by George Harris Hees
Political offices
Preceded by Horatio Clarence Hocken	Mayor of Toronto 1915–1921	Succeeded by Charles A. Maguire

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