John Herron (New Brunswick politician)
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John Herron (born October 21, 1964) is a Canadian politician.
Herron was first elected to the House of Commons in the 1997 federal election as a candidate of the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada (PC Party). He was reelected in the 2000 election. Herron was one of a handful of new Progressive Conservative "young Turk" parliamentarians - along with Scott Brison, André Bachand, and Peter MacKay - considered the youthful leadership material that would restore the ailing Tories to their glory days.
Herron and fellow MP Jim Jones had initially sought out Canadian Alliance leader Stephen Harper as a leadership candidate for the Progressive Conservative Party following the retirement of Joe Clark. Herron became infamous during the 2003 PC leadership election when he abandoned the campaign of Scott Brison to support Peter MacKay before the second ballot. Brison was dropped from the voting when he won just three votes fewer than Jim Prentice on the second ballot. Many blamed this loss on Herron and a handful of his riding delegates who followed him to the MacKay camp.
Herron was a member of the Progressive Conservative Party until December 2003; he did not support its merger with the Canadian Alliance into the Conservative Party of Canada in 2003, and he refused to join the new party. On February 6, 2004, he announced that he would sit for the remainder of the Parliamentary session as an "independent Progressive Conservative", and that he would run in the 2004 election as a candidate for the Liberal Party of Canada. One of Herron's last official acts as a sitting MP was his deliverance of the "Progressive Conservative party caucus" tribute to retiring party leader Joe Clark in May 2004.
Herron lost his seat in the 2004 election to Conservative Party candidate Rob Moore.
| Preceded by Paul Zed |
Member of Parliament for Fundy 1997–2004 |
Succeeded by Rob Moore |
