Jake Froese

{{Short description|Canadian politician}} {{Use Canadian English|date=September 2021}} {{Use dmy dates|date=September 2021}} {{Infobox officeholder | honorific_prefix = | name = Jake Froese | honorific_suffix = | image = | alt = | caption = | office1 = Member of Parliament | constituency1 = Niagara Falls | term_start1 = 1979 | term_end1 = 1980 | predecessor1 = Roger Young | successor1 = Al MacBain | office2 = Lord Mayor of Niagara-on-the-Lake | term_start2 = 1973 | term_end2 = 1978 | predecessor2 = Fred Goring | successor2 = Wilbert Dick | birth_date = September 21, 1925 | birth_place = | death_date = January 16, 2013 (aged 87) | death_place = | spouse = | party = Progressive Conservative | relations = | children = Tom Froese | footnotes = }} '''Jake Froese''' (September 21, 1925 - January 16, 2013) was a Canadian politician, who served as a Progressive Conservative party member of the House of Commons of Canada in the 31st Canadian Parliament.<ref name=advance>[http://www.niagaraadvance.ca/2013/01/21/family-patriarch-respected-politician-dead-at-87 "Family patriarch, respected politician dead at 87"]. ''Niagara Advance'', January 21, 2013.</ref> He represented the Niagara Falls electoral district after winning the seat in the 1979 federal election, but was defeated in the 1980 election by Al MacBain of the Liberal party.

Prior to his election to Parliament, Froese was a longtime municipal politician in Niagara-on-the-Lake, who was first elected to the municipal council in 1968 and later served as the town's Lord Mayor from 1973 to 1978.

His son Tom Froese later served in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1995 to 1999.<ref name=advance />

== Archives == There is a Jake Froese fonds at Library and Archives Canada.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Finding aid to Jake Froese fonds, Library and Archives Canada|url=https://data2.archives.ca/pdf/pdf001/p000000271.pdf|last=|first=|date=|website=|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=}}</ref> Archival reference number is R5288.

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