Henry Smalley Rungay was a politician in Manitoba

Manitoba

Manitoba is a Canadian prairie province with an area of . The province has over 110,000 lakes and has a largely continental climate because of its flat topography. Agriculture, mostly concentrated in the fertile southern and western parts of the province, is vital to the province's economy; other...

, Canada

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. He served in the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba

Legislative Assembly of Manitoba

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 as a Liberal-Progressive

Manitoba Liberal Party

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 from 1948 to 1953.

Rungay was educated in London, and continued his studies at the University of Manitoba

University of Manitoba

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 after moving to Canada in 1906. He became a pharmaceutical chemist after graduation, working as a druggist and clerk in the municipality of Harrison

Harrison, Manitoba

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. He was chosen president of the local Red Cross Association in 1941, and served as vice-president of the Trans-Canada Highway

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 Association.

Rungay first campaigned for the Manitoba legislature in the 1936 provincial election

Manitoba general election, 1936

Manitoba's general election of July 27, 1936 was held to elect Members of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Manitoba, Canada.The was the second election in Manitoba after the formation of a Liberal-Progressive alliance in 1932...

, but lost to Conservative

Progressive Conservative Party of Manitoba

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 candidate Earl J. Rutledge by 273 votes in Minnedosa. He lost to Rutledge again, by a greater margin, in the 1941 provincial election

Manitoba general election, 1941

Manitoba's general election of April 22, 1941 was held to elect Members of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Manitoba, Canada.This election was held shortly after the formation of a coalition government in December 1940...

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Rutledge resigned from the legislature in 1948, and Rungay was elected to take his place, defeating a candidate of the Cooperative Commonwealth Federation in a by-election

By-election

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 held on July 13 of the same year. He was returned by acclamation in the 1949 provincial election

Manitoba general election, 1949

Manitoba's general election of November 10, 1949 was held to elect Members of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Manitoba, Canada.This election pitted the province's coalition government, made up of the Liberal-Progressive Party and the Progressive Conservative Party, against a variety of...

. The Liberal-Progressives and Progressive Conservatives were cooperating in a coalition government

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 during this period, and did not always challenge one another in constituency elections.

Rungay served as a government backbencher during his time in the legislature. He unexpectedly lost to Gilbert Hutton

Gilbert Hutton

Gilbert "Bunty" Hutton was a politician in Manitoba, Canada. He served in the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba from 1953 to 1958 as a representative of the Social Credit League...

 of the Manitoba Social Credit Party

Manitoba Social Credit Party

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 in the 1953 provincial election

Manitoba general election, 1953

Manitoba's general election of June 8, 1953 was held to elect Members of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Manitoba, Canada. This was the first election held in Manitoba after the breakup of a ten-year coalition government led by the Liberal-Progressives and Progressive Conservatives...

, by thirty-two votes.

His son, Henry Hunter Rungay, was also a public figure in Manitoba.