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About Maurice Ridley
- Maurice E.
- Ridley (February 25, 1915 – October 2, 1960) was a politician in Manitoba, Canada.
- He served in the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba as a Progressive Conservative from 1957 to 1960, and was a cabinet minister in the government of Dufferin Roblin.The son of John Sutherland Ridley, he was born in Manitou, Manitoba, and later worked as a cattle buyer.
- Ridley served in the Canadian Army during World War II.
- From 1948 to 1957, he was mayor of Manitou.Ridley was first elected to the legislature in a by-election held on November 14, 1957, in the constituency of Manitou—Morden.
- He handily defeated his Liberal-Progressive opponent David Lumgair, in a seat that was considered safe for the Progressive Conservative Party. He was re-elected in the 1958 provincial election, in which the Tories under Dufferin Roblin formed a minority government.
- Ridley was a government backbencher during this period.Returned again by a landslide in the 1959 election, he was appointed to cabinet on December 21, 1959, as Minister of Municipal Affairs.
- His time in office was short, as he died in Manitou in late 1960.
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