{{short description|Canadian politician}} {{Use Canadian English|date=January 2023}}
{{Infobox officeholder | name = Doug Rollins | image = | caption = | office = Ontario MPP | term_start = 1995 | term_end = 1999 | predecessor = Hugh O'Neil | successor = ''Riding abolished'' | constituency = Quinte | party = Progressive Conservative | birth_date = {{birth date|1938|11|07}} | birth_place = | death_date = {{death date and age|2012|11|19|1938|11|07}} | death_place = Belleville, Ontario, Canada | profession = Business owner | spouse = Cheryl Rollins | children = 2 | relations = Clarke Rollins (cousin) }} '''E.J. Douglas Rollins''' (November 7, 1938 – November 19, 2012) was a politician in Ontario, Canada. He was a Progressive Conservative member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario who represented the riding of Quinte from 1995 to 1999.
==Background== Rollins was active in many community organizations and served as President of the Belleville Agricultural Society and the Quinte Exhibition and Raceway. For many years he owned and operated a gas station in the east end of Belleville. His cousin, Clarke Rollins, was the MPP for neighbouring riding Hastings—Peterborough from 1955 to 1981.<ref>{{cite web |title=Tribute to Clarke T. Rollins |publisher=Legislative Assembly of Ontario |author=Doug Rollins |url=http://www.ontla.on.ca/web/house-proceedings/house_detail.do?Date=1996-11-27&Parl=36&Sess=1&locale=en#P60_14552 |date=November 27, 1996 |access-date=2015-05-05 |archive-date=2017-01-03 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170103014444/http://www.ontla.on.ca/web/house-proceedings/house_detail.do?Date=1996-11-27&Parl=36&Sess=1&locale=en#P60_14552 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
==Politics== In the 1995 provincial election, he was elected as a Progressive Conservative in riding of Quinte, defeating Liberal George Zegouras by 2,103 votes.<ref name="1995 results">{{cite web |url=http://results.elections.on.ca/results/1995_results/valid_votes.jsp?e_code=36&rec=0&district=quinte&flag=E&layout=G |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210323231914/https://results.elections.on.ca/results/1995_results/valid_votes.jsp?e_code=36&rec=0&district=quinte&flag=E&layout=G |url-status=dead |archive-date=March 23, 2021 |title=Summary of Valid Ballots by Candidate |publisher=Elections Ontario |date=June 8, 1995 |accessdate=2014-03-02 }}</ref> Rollins served as a backbench supporter of the Mike Harris government for the next four years.
The Harris government reduced the number of provincial constituencies from 130 to 103 in 1996, and many sitting MPPs were forced to run against each other. Rollins ran for the Progressive Conservative nomination in the new riding of Prince Edward—Hastings, but lost to Gary Fox.<ref>{{cite news |title=3 Tory MPPs lose chance to run again; Downsizing of electoral map pits incumbents against each other |last=Ruimy |first=Joel |newspaper=Toronto Star |date=April 13, 1999 |page=1}}</ref> Fox was defeated in the June 3, 1999 election.<ref name="1999 results">{{cite web |url=http://results.elections.on.ca/results/1999_results/valid_votes.jsp?e_code=37&rec=0&district=Prince+Edward-Lennox-South+Hastings&flag=E&layout=G |archive-url=https://archive.today/20140803112357/http://results.elections.on.ca/results/1999_results/valid_votes.jsp?e_code=37&rec=0&district=Prince+Edward-Lennox-South+Hastings&flag=E&layout=G |url-status=dead |archive-date=August 3, 2014 |title=Summary of Valid Ballots by Candidate |publisher=Elections Ontario |date=June 3, 1999 |accessdate=2014-03-02 }}</ref>
==Later life== In 2003, Rollins was appointed to the Ontario Parole Board which was seen as a patronage appointment.<ref>{{cite news |title=Former MPP who gave up seat for Eves rewarded: David Tilson named OMB vice-chairman |first1=Robert |last1=Benzie |first2=April |last2=Lindgren |newspaper=National Post |date=April 9, 2003 |page=A15}}</ref> He died from leukemia on November 19, 2012.<ref>{{cite news |title=Friends, family remember Doug Rollins |url=http://www.intelligencer.ca/2012/11/23/friends-family-remember-doug-rollins |first=Jerome |last=Lessard |newspaper=The Intelligencer |location=Belleville, Ont |date=November 26, 2012}}</ref>
His political papers are held at the Community Archives of Belleville and Hastings County.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Doug Rollins papers |url=https://discover.cabhc.ca/doug-rollins-papers}}</ref>
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== * {{OntarioMPPbio|id=ej-douglas-rollins}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Rollins, Douglas}} Category:1938 births Category:2012 deaths Category:Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario MPPs Category:University of Guelph alumni Category:20th-century members of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario