Allan Reuter

Allan Edward Reuter (August 9, 1914 – December 31, 1982) was a Canadian politician and Speaker of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario in the 1970s.

Reuter dropped out of high school at the age of sixteen in order to help support his family by taking a job as an office boy at the Savage Shoe Company.

Discharged from the service at the end of World War II he opened a practice as an accountant and trustee-in-bankruptcy.

[2] Reuter was elected to the Preston town council in 1959 but resigned in 1961 in protest of the method in which the reeve was chosen.

[2] Premier John Robarts appointed Reuter as Deputy Speaker and Chairman of the Committee of the Whole House in 1968.