Thomas McQueston
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Thomas B. McQueston was a politician in Ontario, Canada.
McQueston was first elected to the Legislative Assembly of Ontario as a Liberal Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) for Hamilton-Wentworth in the 1934 provincial election that brought the Liberals to power under Mitchell Hepburn. McQueston was appointed to the cabinet as Minister of Public Works and Minister of Highways. He oversaw the construction of the Queen Elizabeth Way, developing the road into a superhighway based on the German autobahn. He also commissioned what became Ontario's Highway 401.
He left the cabinet in 1937, but returned in 1940 as Minister of Mines and then Minister of Municipal Affairs. When Gordon Daniel Conant succeeded Hepburn as Premier in October 1942, McQueston reassumed his former portfolios of Public Works and Highways as well as retaining Municipal Affairs. McQueston was a candidate in the 1943 Ontario Liberal leadership convention where he placed third, though he lost his seat in the 1943 election, which was the same year that the Liberal government of Harry Nixon was defeated.
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