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{{Short description|Canadian politician (1906–1981)}}
{{Use Canadian English|date=January 2023}}
{{Infobox officeholder
| name                = Arthur Reaume
| image               = 
| caption             = 
| office1             = [[Member of Provincial Parliament (Ontario)|Ontario MPP]]
| term_start1         = November 22, 1951
| term_end1           = October 16, 1967
| predecessor1        = [[Gordon Bennett Ellis]]
| successor1          = [[Dick Ruston]]
| constituency1       = [[Essex North (provincial electoral district)|Essex North]]
| office2             = 22nd [[Mayor of Windsor, Ontario|Mayor of Windsor]]
| term_start2         = 1941
| term_end2           = 1954
| predecessor2        = [[David Croll]]
| successor2          = [[Thomas Brophey]]
| party               = [[Ontario Liberal Party]]
| birth_date          = {{birth date|1906|11|30}}
| birth_place         = [[Sandwich, Ontario]], Canada
| death_date          = {{death date and age|1981|12|13|1906|11|30}}
| death_place         = [[Toronto|Toronto, Ontario]], Canada
| profession          = 
| spouse              = 
| children            = 
}}

'''Arthur John Reaume''' (November 30, 1906 – December 13, 1981) was a Canadian politician.

==Background==
Reaume was born at Sandwich, Ontario, in 1906.<ref name="google">{{cite journal|title=Guide Parlementaire Canadien|author1=Normandin, P.G.|author2=Normandin, A.L.|journal=The Canadian Parliamentary Guide = Guide Parlementaire Canadien|date=1965|publisher=P.G. Normandin|issn=0315-6168|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QG9LAAAAMAAJ|accessdate=June 27, 2015}}</ref>

==Politics==
He was elected to the town council of Sandwich in 1930 and became mayor of Sandwich in 1933. He sat on [[Windsor, Ontario|Windsor]] city council after Sandwich became part of Windsor. Reaume succeeded [[David Croll]] as Windsor mayor in 1941, becoming the 22nd [[mayor]] of the city, and was reelected in 1948. In the municipal election of 1950, it appeared that [[Thomas Brophey]] had defeated Reaume by 38 votes but, after a recount, Reaume was declared the winner by 16 votes and served until 1954.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.walkervilletimes.com/39/eightday-mayor.html |title=The Eight Day Mayor |newspaper=Walkerville Times |last=Brode |first=Pat}}</ref> Reaume is also Windsor's longest-serving mayor, at 13 years.

He ran as a candidate for the [[Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario]] in the [[1943 Ontario general election|1943 election]] but was defeated by the [[Ontario New Democratic Party|CCF]]. He broke with the Conservatives when he supported UAW workers at Ford in their fight for the [[Rand formula]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.caw.ca/whoweare/ourhistory/cawhistory/ch5/p2c5_5.html |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070928145443/http://www.caw.ca/whoweare/ourhistory/cawhistory/ch5/p2c5_5.html |archivedate=September 28, 2007 |url-status=dead |title=The UAW and the CCF |work=Canadian Autoworkers History |publisher=Canadian Autoworkers}}</ref>

In the [[1945 Ontario general election|1945]] and [[1948 Ontario general election|1948 elections]], he ran as a [[Liberal-Labour (Canada)|Liberal-Labour]] candidate, but lost on both attempts. He was elected to the [[Legislative Assembly of Ontario]] as a [[Ontario Liberal Party|Liberal]] [[Member of Provincial Parliament (Ontario)|Member of Provincial Parliament]] (MPP) in the [[1951 Ontario general election|1951 election]]. He remained in office until the [[1967 Ontario general election|1967 election]].

A pro-[[labour (economics)|labour]] but otherwise conservative politician, he ran for the [[Ontario Liberal leadership convention|Ontario Liberal leadership]] in 1958 but won only 32 votes and was eliminated on the first ballot along with [[Liberal-Labour (Canada)|Liberal-Labour]] MPP [[Albert Wren]]. Reaume withdrew after the first ballot and threw his support to [[John Wintermeyer]] who came from behind to win on the third ballot.<ref>{{cite news |title=Albert Wren: MPP for 10 Years In Northern Riding |work=The Globe and Mail|date=2 October 1961}}</ref> Reaume and Wren had both been expelled from the Liberal caucus in 1957 for attacking the leadership of [[Farquhar Oliver]] but Reaume was readmitted after apologising.<ref name=reb>{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1946&dat=19580404&id=rU4wAAAAIBAJ&pg=7217,782445 |title=Ontario Liberal Leadership Fight Looms |newspaper=Montreal Gazette |date=April 4, 1958 |page=13}}</ref>

He died at a Toronto hospital in 1981.<ref>{{cite news |title=Windsor ex-mayor Reaume, Arthur J |newspaper=The Globe and Mail |date=December 15, 1981 |page=10}}</ref>

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
*{{Ontario MPP biography|id=arthur-john-reaume}}

{{Mayors of Windsor, Ontario}}

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