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HUNTER LESLIE STEWART, farmer and business person; b. 3 October 1889 in Dundas, son of Stewart Hunter and Christina Catherine Hunter; United; d. 1970. Hunter, a Conservative, was first elected to the Legislative Assembly in the general election of 1923 for 3rd Kings. He was re-elected in the general elections of 1931 and 1943. He was defeated in the general elections of 1927, 1935, 1939, 1947, and 1951. Hunter, a farmer in the Dundas area, was also the manager of Matthew and McLean Limited and the secretary-treasurer of the Dundas Dairying Association. He was associated with the Central Kings Carry-on Canada Corporation. During the First World War, he served overseas. Leslie Hunter died in 1970., CPG 1932, 1936, 1944, 1948; PARO: 1901 Census.