# Bert Soper

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{{Short description|Canadian politician}}
{{Use Canadian English|date=January 2023}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=September 2021}}
{{Infobox officeholder
| name        = Bert Soper
| birth_name  = Bert H. Soper
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| birth_date  = {{birth date|df=yes|1884|3|15}}
| birth_place = [Frankville, Ontario](/source/Elizabethtown-Kitley%2C_Ontario), Canada
| death_date  = {{death date and age|1968|7|2|1884|3|15|df=yes}}
| death_place = 
| spouse      = Florence McLennan<br />m. 23 June 1909<ref name=CPG>{{cite book | title=The Canadian Parliamentary Guide | year=1941 | first=A. L. | last=Normandin }}</ref>
| riding      = [Lanark](/source/Lanark_(federal_electoral_district))
| predecessor = 
| successor   = 
| term_start  = March 1940
| term_end    = June 1945
| profession  = merchant
| party       = [Liberal](/source/Liberal_Party_of_Canada)
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| website     =  
}}

'''Bert H. Soper''' (15 March 1884 &ndash; 2 July 1968) was a [Canadian](/source/Canadians) businessman and politician. Soper served as a  [Liberal party](/source/Liberal_Party_of_Canada) member of the [House of Commons of Canada](/source/House_of_Commons_of_Canada). He was born in [Frankville, Ontario](/source/Elizabethtown-Kitley%2C_Ontario) and became a merchant by career.

Soper became director of Allan Soper and Company, a coal sales company. He was also involved with Smiths Falls Malleable Castings Ltd.<ref name=CPG />

He was first elected to Parliament at the [Lanark](/source/Lanark_(federal_electoral_district)) riding in the [1940 general election](/source/1940_Canadian_federal_election) after unsuccessful campaigns there in [1930](/source/1930_Canadian_federal_election) and [1935](/source/1935_Canadian_federal_election). Soper was defeated in the [1945 election](/source/1945_Canadian_federal_election) by [William Gourlay Blair](/source/William_Gourlay_Blair) of the [Progressive Conservative party](/source/Progressive_Conservative_Party_of_Canada).

==References==
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==External links==
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