Hartley Dewart
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Herbert Hartley Dewart (9 November 1861 – 7 July 1924) was an Ontario lawyer and politician.
He was born in St. Johns, Canada East. The son of Edward Hartley Dewart, a Methodist minister, Dewart was a staunch advocate of prohibition. He studied at the University of Toronto and Osgoode Hall and was called to the Ontario bar in 1887. Dewart set up practice in Toronto and served as crown attorney for York County from 1891 to 1904. He was first elected to the provincial legislature in a 1916 by-election after the death of James Joseph Foy and, in 1919, he became leader of the Ontario Liberal Party. He resigned as leader in 1921 due to opposition within his caucus to his prohibitionist stance. He returned to private practice and died at his home near Uxbridge in 1924.
He ran unsuccessfully as the Liberal candidate in the 1904 federal election for Toronto South and in the 1911 federal election for York Centre.
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