Horace Racine

Horace S. Racine (September 13, 1905 – 1994)[1] was a Canadian politician, who represented Ottawa East in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1963 to 1967[2] as a Liberal member.

Racine's first attempt at political office was an unsuccessful effort to secure a position on the Ottawa Board of Control in the 1962 municipal election.

One year later, he ran and won in the provincial general election in 1963, defeating the incumbent PC MPP, Jules Morin.

During his first term in office, he served on variety of Standing Committees as a member of the Opposition during one of the John Robarts majority PC governments.

Secretary General (1936) généraral then president of the St-Jean-Baptisite Society of Ottawa, founding member (1945) and Chairman (1950) of the Richelieu Club of Ottawa-Hull and Director of International Richelieu (1953–1957), Chairman of the Liberal Club of Ottawa East (1953–1957) Founder of Patro-Ottawa, he was President in 1957 and is a member of the Assembly Cartier 4th degree Knights of Columbus.