Henry Rungay
Henry Smalley Rungay 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 [Manitoba general election|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.