Camp, Dalton

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Wiki Biography:
- Dalton Kingsley Camp PC OC (September 11, 1920 – March 18, 2002) was a Canadian journalist, politician, political strategist and commentator, and supporter of the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada. Although he was never elected to a seat in the Canadian House of Commons, he was a prominent and influential politician and a popular commentator for decades. He is a central figure in Red Toryism.
- Camp was born in Woodstock, New Brunswick. His father was a Baptist minister whose work took his family to Connecticutand later California. Upon his father’s death in 1937, Camp’s mother and her children returned to their hometown of Woodstock.
- Camp soon enrolled in undergraduate studies at Acadia University, but his time there was interrupted by enlistment in the Canadian Army during the Second World War. After the war, Camp finished his undergraduate studies in the liberal arts at the University of New Brunswick, followed by graduate studies in journalism at Columbia University and political science at the London School of Economics.
- Faced with evidence that most of the party was unhappy with Diefenbaker’s policies, which were increasingly eccentric and autocratic, Camp led a grassroots campaign within the party for a leadership review. After the decision was made to have a leadership convention in 1967, Camp left the presidency of the party and briefly considered campaigning for leadership of the party, but when Robert Stanfield decided to run, Camp lent his support to Stanfield’s campaign.
- Camp ran as a candidate for Parliament in the 1963 and 1968 elections, but he personally failed to be elected.
Third Great Grandson to United Empire Loyalist listed in Loyalist Directory: https://uelac.ca/loyalist-directory/detail/?wpda_search_column_id=1172
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