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About Thomas P. Hillhouse
- Thomas Paterson Hillhouse, (June 25, 1898 in Glasgow, Scotland – October 27, 1991) was a politician in Manitoba, Canada.
- He was a member of the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba from 1950 to 1969, initially serving as a Liberal-Progressive and subsequently as a Liberal, after the party changed its name.The son of James W.
- Hillhouse and Mary Brown, Hillhouse came to Winnipeg with his family in 1900 and was educated there, at the University of Manitoba and at the Manitoba Law School.
- He served in Europe with the Canadian Expeditionary Force during World War I.
- He was called to the Manitoba bar in 1923 and worked as a barrister-at-law in Selkirk.
- Hillhouse served as a police magistrate for the province.
- In 1927, he married Irene McGregor.
- He was later named Queen's Counsel.He was first elected to the Manitoba legislature in a by-election on October 10, 1950.
- Hillhouse defeated his CCF and Progressive Conservative opponents fairly easily in the riding of St.
- Andrews, and served as a backbench supporter of Douglas Campbell's government.
- He was re-elected in the 1953 election.
- Notwithstanding their name, the Liberal-Progressives were considered the most right-wing party in Manitoba during this period; Hillhouse, however, was seen as a leading social liberal in the party's caucus.
- Some expressed surprise that he was never named to cabinet. The Liberal-Progressives lost power following the 1958 provincial election, and Hillhouse was returned by a reduced majority in the redistributed riding of Selkirk.He defeated PC candidate Edward Foster by only 82 votes in the 1959 election, in which the Progressive Conservatives won a majority government.
- He won by a greater majority in the 1962 election, but defeated PC candidate Sydney Sarbitt by only 40 votes in that of 1966.
- He retired from the legislature in 1969.He died in Selkirk at the age of 93.
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