Alfred Franklin Kenning was a lumberman and political figure in Ontario

Ontario

Ontario is a province of Canada, located in east-central Canada. It is Canada's most populous province and second largest in total area. It is home to the nation's most populous city, Toronto, and the nation's capital, Ottawa....

. He represented Cochrane South

Cochrane South

Cochrane South was a provincial electoral district in Ontario, Canada, that was represented in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1926 to 1999...

 in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario

Legislative Assembly of Ontario

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 from 1926 to 1934 as a Conservative

Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario

The Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario , is a right-of-centre political party in Ontario, Canada. The party was known for many years as "Ontario's natural governing party." It has ruled the province for 80 of the years since Confederation, including an uninterrupted run from 1943 to 1985...

 member.

He was born in Pembroke, Ontario

Pembroke, Ontario

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, the son of Richard W. Kenning and Charlotte Gibson, and was educated there. Kenning served in the Canadian Machine Gun Corps and the British infantry during World War I

World War I

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, reaching the rank of lieutenant. In 1921, he married Craig Hoggarth.