Theodore Calvin Arnott (born April 8, 1963) is a politician in Ontario, Canada. He was first elected to the Legislative Assembly of Ontario on September 6, 1990, representing the Riding of Wellington. He is a member of the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario and represents the Riding of Wellington—Halton Hills in the Ontario Legislature. Arnott has served as Speaker of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario during the 42nd and 43rd Parliaments of Ontario. Arnott, long one of the longest-serving MPPs in the Ontario Legislature, became its longest-serving member in 2022 following the retirement of Jim Wilson and the defeat of Gilles Bisson. He is only member of the legislature who has continuously served since the 1990 Ontario general election and the premiership of Bob Rae. Background Ted Arnott was born in 1963 in Fergus, Ontario. He grew up in Arthur, Ontario where his family was in the engineering construction business. While attending school, he had a newspaper delivery route at the age of 9, and later worked part time as a retail store clerk, a construction labourer, and a factory worker. He also played minor hockey, lacrosse, and later tennis. In 1979, he received recognition from the Order of St. John of Jerusalem for rendering "assistance which was instrumental in saving the life of a drowning man" at the Rockwood Conservation Area on August 20, 1978, receiving the honour from the Commissioner of the Ontario Provincial Police, Harold H. Graham. After graduating from Arthur District High School, he attended Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo, earning a Bachelor of Arts degree, with a major in Political Science, and later receiving a Diploma in Business Administration. From 1987-1990, he was Executive Assistant to Jack Johnson, MPP for the Riding of Wellington and Chair of the Ontario Progressive Conservative Caucus. Married in 1990, he and his wife Lisa live in Fergus, Ontario, and are the parents of three sons. Politics Arnott first ran in the 1990 provincial election as the Progressive Conservative candidate in the Riding of Wellington at the age of 27; he was elected with a plurality of 1,304 votes. At the time of his election, Arnott was the youngest MPP in the Ontario Progressive Conservative Caucus. Between 1990-1995, he served as PC Critic to the Minister of Transportation, and later as Critic to the Minister of Culture, Tourism, and Recreation, and as Vice-Chair of the Standing Committee on Estimates. In