James McNulty (Canadian politician)

James Carroll Patrick McNulty
James Carroll Patrick McNulty
Member of Parliament; for Lincoln
	In office; June 1962 – June 1968
Member of Parliament; for St. Catharines
	In office; June 1968 – September 1972
Personal details
Born	16 August 1918; Belleville, Ontario, Canada
Died	2 April 2011 (aged 92)
Political party	Liberal
Spouse	Helen Margaret Kelly
Profession	administrator, teacher

James Carroll Patrick McNulty (16 August 1918 – 2 April 2011) was a Liberal party member of the House of Commons of Canada. He was an administrator and teacher by career.

The son of Joseph and Monica (née MacDonald) McNulty, he attended the University of Toronto, McMaster University, the Hamilton College of Education and the Ottawa College of Education. He was a schoolteacher in St. Catharines. In 1944, he married Helen Margaret Kelly.^[1]

McNulty served on the council for Grantham Township from 1957 to 1958, on the council for Lincoln County in 1959, as deputy reeve for Grantham township in 1959 and on the city council for St. Catharines from 1960 to 1962.

He was first elected at the Lincoln riding in the 1962 general election and was re-elected there in 1963 and 1965. In the 1968 federal election, he was re-elected at the newly configured St. Catharines riding. After completing his final House of Commons term, the 28th Canadian Parliament, McNulty was defeated at St. Catharines in the 1972 election by J. Trevor Morgan of the Progressive Conservative party.

From 1968 to 1970, he was Parliamentary Secretary to Bryce Mackasey, then the Minister of Labour.

v t e 1962 Canadian federal election: Lincoln
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	James C. McNulty	23,386
	Progressive Conservative	John Smith	20,445
	Social Credit	Herbert Heppner	5,262
	New Democratic	Rose Cookson	5,130

v t e 1963 Canadian federal election: Lincoln
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	James C. McNulty	25,902
	Progressive Conservative	Romaine K. Ross	21,345
	New Democratic	Rose Cookson	5,315
	Social Credit	James R. Walters	2,841

v t e 1965 Canadian federal election: Lincoln
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	James C. McNulty	25,820
	Progressive Conservative	Joe Reid	19,324
	New Democratic	Arthur Matti Peltomaa	8,395
	Social Credit	George S. Mallory	1,913

Death

McNulty died from cancer at the age of 92.^[2]

References

^ Johnson, J.K. (1968). The Canadian Directory of Parliament 1867–1967. Public Archives of Canada.
^ Van Dongen, Matthew (4 April 2011). "Respected MP, football coach James McNulty dies". St. Catharines Standard. Archived from the original on 8 March 2012. Retrieved 5 April 2011.

External links

James McNulty – Parliament of Canada biography

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[johnson-1] Johnson, J.K. (1968). The Canadian Directory of Parliament 1867–1967. Public Archives of Canada.

[2] Van Dongen, Matthew (4 April 2011). "Respected MP, football coach James McNulty dies". St. Catharines Standard. Archived from the original on 8 March 2012. Retrieved 5 April 2011.

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