Louis Orville Breithaupt

Template:Short description Template:Use Canadian English Template:Use dmy dates Template:Infobox Officeholder Louis Orville Breithaupt (28 October 1890 – 6 December 1960)<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> served as the 18th Lieutenant Governor of Ontario, Canada, from 1952 to 1957.<ref name="parl">Template:Canadian Parliament links</ref>

Life and career

Born in Berlin (later Kitchener), Ontario,<ref name="parl"/> the son of Emma Alvarine (Devitt) and Louis Jacob Breithaupt,<ref name="johnson">Template:Cite book</ref> he was educated at the University of Toronto. He became head of his family's leather business, Breithaupt Leather Company, in Kitchener. He was a Kitchener alderman for four years, and in 1923 became the youngest mayor in the city's history. He was a Liberal Member of Parliament from 1940 to 1952.<ref name="parl"/> His sister Rosa Clark (née Rosa Breithaupt) founded the Guild of all Arts artist colony in Scarborough, Ontario, now the Guild Park and Gardens.

Breithaupt was appointed Lieutenant Governor of Ontario in 1952 and served until 1957.<ref name="parl"/>

In 1953, he was awarded an honorary LL.D from McMaster University.<ref>Template:Cite web </ref>

Breithaupt was active in many service organizations, such as the YMCA and Rotary Club. In 1959, he became Chancellor of Victoria University. Breithaupt died in Toronto in 1960 at the age of 70.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> He was buried along with the rest of his family at Kitchener's Mount Hope Cemetery.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>