{{Short description|Canadian politician}} {{for|the American writer and conservationist|Gordon Waterman Chaplin}} {{Use Canadian English|date=September 2021}} {{Use dmy dates|date=September 2021}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = Gordon Chaplin | image = | image_size = | caption = | birth_date = 31 July 1907 | birth_place = St. Catharines, Ontario | death_date = {{death date and age|df=yes|1964|6|27|1907|7|31}} | death_place = Galt, Ontario<ref name="johnson"/> | spouse = Helen Elizabeth Goring | riding = Waterloo South | term_start = June 1962 | term_end = June 1964 | predecessor = William Anderson | successor = Max Saltsman | profession = Businessman, manufacturer | party = Progressive Conservative | footnotes = | predecessor2 = | successor2 = | website = }}
'''Gordon Chaplin''' (31 July 1907 – 27 June 1964) was a Progressive Conservative party member of the House of Commons of Canada. He was born in St. Catharines, Ontario and became a businessman and manufacturer by career.<ref name="parl">{{Canadian Parliament links|ID=11854|nolist=yes}}</ref>
The son of James Dew Chaplin and Edna Elizabeth Burgess, he was educated in St. Catharines and established himself in business in Galt. Chaplin was president of Canadian General Tower Limited and a director of the Waterloo Savings and Trust Company. In 1920, he married Helen Elizabeth Goring.<ref name="johnson">{{cite book |title=The Canadian Directory of Parliament 1867-1967 |last=Johnson |first=J.K. |year=1968 |publisher=Public Archives of Canada}}</ref>
Chaplin represented Waterloo South in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1945 to 1948;<ref name="parl"/> he was defeated when he ran for reelection in 1948.<ref name="johnson"/> He was first elected to the House of Commons for the Waterloo South riding in the 1962 general election and re-elected there in 1963. Chaplin died in office on 27 June 1964 during his term in the 26th Canadian Parliament.<ref name="parl"/>
His uncle Alexander Dew Chaplin also served in the House of Commons.<ref name="parl"/>
Gordon Chaplin Park in Cambridge, Ontario is named in his honour.
==Electoral record== {{1963 Canadian federal election/Waterloo South}} {{1962 Canadian federal election/Waterloo South}}
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== * [https://generations.regionofwaterloo.ca/getperson.php?personID=I99586&tree=generations James Elliott Gordon Chaplin profile at Waterloo Region]
{{DEFAULTSORT:Chaplin, Gordon}} Category:1907 births Category:1964 deaths Category:Businesspeople from St. Catharines Category:Members of the House of Commons of Canada from Ontario Category:Politicians from St. Catharines Category:Progressive Conservative Party of Canada MPs Category:Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario MPPs Category:20th-century members of the House of Commons of Canada Category:20th-century members of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario