Allan Grossman : Ask Biography

Personal data

Date of birth

December 25, 1910

Place of birth

Toronto, Ontario

Date of death

1991

Place of death

Toronto, Ontario

Political party

Progressive Conservative

MPP for St. Andrew-St. Patrick

In office

1967 - 1975

Succeeded by

Larry Grossman

Preceded by

Riding estabished

MPP for St. Andrew

In office

1955 - 1967

Succeeded by

Riding abolished

Preceded by

Joseph Salsberg

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Allan Grossman (1910 � 1991) was a member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario, Canada, for 20 years, a provincial cabinet minister and the father of the late former leader of the Ontario Progressive Conservative Party, Larry Grossman. Together, the father and son represented the downtown Toronto, Ontario, riding of St. Andrew, and its successor St. Andrew-St. Patrick, for 32 consecutive years. Allan was also the second Jewish Canadian Cabinet minister in Ontario and the first to be a Tory. He was also the first elected Canadian official to visit China.