Laureano Leone is a former politician

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 in Ontario

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, Canada

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. He was a Liberal

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 member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario

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 from 1987 to 1990.

Leone was educated at Liceo Classico "Ovidio" Sulmona in L'Aquila, and the Detroit Institute of Technology

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. He also served as vice-chair of the Ontario Place

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 Corporation, and as president of the National Congress of Italian Canadians and the Canadian Ethnocultural Council. He has received a Gold Medal (Award of Merit) from the city of Toronto

Toronto

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 for "community involvement", and was appointed as an Officer of the Order of Canada

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 on April 22, 1982.

He first ran for the Ontario legislature in the 1981 provincial election

Ontario general election, 1981

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, but finished third against New Democrat Ed Philip

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 in the riding of Etobicoke

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. He ran a second time in the riding of Downsview

Downsview (electoral district)

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 in the 1987 provincial election

Ontario general election, 1987

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, and defeated NDP candidate Maria Augimeri

Maria Augimeri

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 by 174 votes. He served as a backbench supporter of David Peterson

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's government for the next three years.

The Liberals were unexpectedly defeated by the NDP in the 1990 provincial election

Ontario general election, 1990

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. Leone's seat was a top NDP target, and he lost to NDP candidate Anthony Perruzza

Anthony Perruzza

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 by over 5,000 votes. He has not sought a return to the legislature since this time.

Leone was later named an Honorary Consul of Canada in Sulmona.

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