Hugh Edighoffer

[1] He served in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario as a Liberal member from 1967 to 1990, and was Speaker of the legislature during the administration of David Peterson.

Edighoffer was born in 1928 at Stratford, Ontario,[2] grew up in Mitchell, was educated at Pickering College and worked as a retail merchant in the clothing business before entering provincial politics.

[2] He ran for the Ontario legislature in the 1963 election, but lost to Progressive Conservative J. Fred Edwards by over 5,000 votes in the constituency of Perth.

[10] The Liberal Party, which had been out of power since 1943, formed a minority government after the election of 1985.

Edighoffer was nominated and seconded for the Speaker's position by the leaders of all three political parties represented in the legislature, and was generally regarded as an impartial officeholder.