Jack Carroll is a politician

Politician

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 in Ontario, Canada

Canada

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. He was a Progressive 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 of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario

Legislative Assembly of Ontario

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 from 1995 to 1999.

Carroll was educated at the University of Toronto

University of Toronto

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, and worked as a high school teacher. He also served as an executive of General Motors of Canada Ltd., and owned a car dealership.

In the 1995 provincial election

Ontario general election, 1995

The Ontario general election of 1995 was held on June 8, 1995, to elect members of the 36th Legislative Assembly of the province of Ontario, Canada...

, Carroll was elected in the riding

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 of Chatham—Kent

Chatham—Kent

Chatham—Kent was a provincial electoral district in Ontario, Canada. It existed from the 1967 election until it was abolished into Lambton—Kent—Middlesex and Chatham-Kent—Essex in 1998....

 over Liberal

Ontario Liberal Party

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 Mike Ferguson by 546 votes (New Democrat Randy Hope

Randy Hope

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 finished third). He served as a backbench supporter of Mike Harris

Mike Harris

Michael Deane "Mike" Harris was the 22nd Premier of Ontario from June 26, 1995 to April 15, 2002. He is most noted for the "Common Sense Revolution", his Progressive Conservative government's program of deficit reduction in combination with lower taxes and cuts to government...

's government for the next four years, and was a parliamentary assistant from 1996 to 1999.

In 1996, the Harris government reduced the number of provincial ridings from 130 to 103. Several sitting MPPs were forced to run against one another, and Carroll was defeated by Liberal MPP Pat Hoy

Pat Hoy

Pat Hoy is a politician in Ontario, Canada. He was a member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario, representing the riding of Chatham-Kent—Essex for the Ontario Liberal Party from 1995 to 2011....

 by 8,001 votes in the new riding of Chatham—Kent—Essex. During the election, the national media reported an extremely large demonstration against the Progressive Conservative government in Chatham

Chatham, Ontario

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.

Carroll supported the Reform Party

Reform Party of Canada

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 at the federal level in the 1990s, and endorsed Tom Long's bid to lead the Canadian Alliance

Canadian Alliance

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in 2000 (Windsor Star, 12 May 2000).