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About Henry Rungay
- Henry Smalley Rungay (October 14, 1888 in London, UK – November 1955) was a politician in Manitoba, Canada.
- He served in the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba as a Liberal-Progressive from 1948 to 1953.Rungay was educated in London, and continued his studies at the University of Manitoba after moving to Canada in 1906.
- He became a pharmaceutical chemist after graduation, working as a druggist and clerk in the municipality of Harrison.
- He was chosen president of the local Red Cross Association in 1941, and served as vice-president of the Trans-Canada Highway Association.
- Rungay also served as secretary-treasurer for the Rural Municipality of Harrison and was a correspondent for the Western Municipal News.Rungay first campaigned for the Manitoba legislature in the 1936 provincial election, but lost to Conservative candidate Earl J.
- Rutledge by 273 votes in Minnedosa.
- He lost to Rutledge again, by a greater margin, in the 1941 provincial election. 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 held on July 13 of the same year.
- He was returned by acclamation in the 1949 provincial election.
- The Liberal-Progressives and Progressive Conservatives were cooperating in a coalition government 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 of the Manitoba Social Credit Party in the 1953 provincial election, by thirty-two votes. He died at the age of 67.His son, Henry Hunter Rungay, was also a public figure in Manitoba.
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