Philip Givens

Philip Gerald Givens ( born April 24, 1922 in Toronto, Ontario, † 30 November 1995) was a judge, a member of the lower house and was in the 1960s of the 54th mayor of Toronto.

Givens was the first member of the Liberal Party of Canada and presented in 1957 and 1958 federal election, but failed in two years. From 1963 to 1966 he was mayor of Toronto. It consists, inter alia, to for the purchase of the sculpture of Henry Moore, which today at the Nathan Phillips Square in front of the New Town Hall in Toronto. He was elected to the lower house of the Canadian Parliament in 1968. This office he laid down early in 1971 to recruit a candidate of the Ontario Liberal Party in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario. There remained a member until 1977, to then withdraw from politics and to work as a judge.