Samuel Victor Railton (28 February 1906 – 23 July 1996) was a Liberal party member of the House of Commons of Canada. He was born in Kelvin, Ontario and became a physician and surgeon by career.

Railton studied medicine at the University of Toronto after graduation from Brantford Collegiate Institute. After establishing a medical practice at Port Colborne, Ontario, he served in the Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps between 1940 and 1945. Following World War II, he became a surgeon in Welland, Ontario, and volunteered his skills in 1970 for the Nigerian Civil War.

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He was first elected at the Welland riding in the 1972 general election and was re-elected there in the 1974 election. He left federal politics after completing his term in the 30th Parliament.

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1906 births

1996 deaths

Physicians from Ontario

Canadian surgeons

Members of the House of Commons of Canada from Ontario

Liberal Party of Canada MPs

University of Toronto alumni

People from Port Colborne

20th-century Canadian physicians

People of the Nigerian Civil War

Canadian expatriates in Nigeria

20th-century surgeons

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