Jacob Schulz

Jacob (Jake) Shulz (October 12, 1901 – August 14, 1983) was a Canadian farmer and politician as well as the father-in-law of Governor General Ed Schreyer.

Shulz was born in Friedensthal,[1] a Bessarabia German community in the Russian Empire, from 1918 part of Romania and today Mirnopolye, Ukraine.

[2] He was a candidate for the Manitoba Co-operative Commonwealth Federation in the 1949 provincial election in the electoral district of Gilbert Plains, losing by 330 votes to Ray Mitchell.

He served for the short 23rd Canadian Parliament, which lasted less than a year, before losing his seat in the 1958 federal election that elected a landslide majority government for the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada.

[2] Shulz founded a construction company in 1960 and wrote a book, The Rise and Fall of Farm Organizations.