Obie Baizley

William Obadiah Baizley (born May 25, 1917 in Montreal , Québec , † May 3, 2000 ) was a politician in Manitoba , Canada . He was a progressive-conservative member of the Manitoba Legislative Assembly from 1959 to 1969 and served as cabinet minister in the administrations of Dufferin Roblin and Walter Weir .

Baizley was educated at Glenlawn Collegiate in St. Vital and Lincoln College of Chiropractic in Indiana . He returned to Manitoba in 1937 and worked there as a chiropractor , as well as serving as President of the Manitoba Chiropractic Association before entering political life. During World War II , he was a member of the Royal Canadian Air Force .

First he was elected to the Manitoba legislature in the provincial elections of 1959, where he unexpectedly defeated CCF leader Lloyd Stinson by 326 votes. He served as the back bench of Roblin's government for the next five years. When he was re-elected without difficulty in the 1962 provincial election, Baizley was appointed Minister of Labor in the Cabinet on February 27, 1963 . He held his position until September 24, 1968, when he was appointed Minister of Local Affairs . He agreed with Walter Weir to appoint Roblin to succeed the Progressive Conservative Leader in 1967.

Baizley was again re-elected in the Manitoba general election without any major problems, but lost to Ian Turnbull of the Manitoba New Democratic Party with 623 votes in the Manitoba general election in 1969 . After that time, he did not seek to return to the office.

Baizley was President of the Manitoba Labor Board during the 1970s. He also served as President of the United Church in Riverview, Canada.