Alvin Hamilton
Francis Alvin George Hamilton PC (born March 30, 1912 in Kenora , Ontario ; † June 29, 2004 ) was a Canadian politician of the Progressive Conservative Party (PC), who was a member of the House of Commons for 27 years and chairman of the Progressive from 1949 to 1957 Conservative Party of Saskatchewan was. Between 1957 and 1960 he was Minister for Northern Affairs and National Resources and then from 1960 to 1963 Minister of Agriculture in the 18th Canadian Cabinet of Prime Minister John Diefenbaker .
Life
World War II, Saskatchewan Party Chairman and MP
After attending school, Hamilton first completed an undergraduate degree , which he completed with a Bachelor of Arts (BA). A postgraduate course of the law , he finished with a Doctor of Laws (LL.D.) and was then as teachers worked. During the Second World War he joined the Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) in 1941 and was a member of this until 1945, where he was promoted to captain last .
In the election of June 11, 1945 and June 27, 1949 , Hamilton ran for a seat in the House of Commons as a candidate of the Progressive Conservative Party in the Rosetown-Biggar constituency, each unsuccessfully . In 1949 he succeeded Rupert Ramsay as chairman of the Progressive Conservative Party of Saskatchewan and held this position for eight years until he was replaced by Martin Pederson in 1957.
After he had run unsuccessfully for a lower house mandate in the election of August 10, 1953 in the constituency of Qu'Appelle , he was elected for the first time as a member of the lower house in the election of June 10, 1957 in this constituency and initially belonged to this June 25, 1968.
Federal Minister, candidacy for party chairmanship and re-election to the lower house
On August 22, 1957, Hamilton was appointed by Prime Minister John Diefenbaker to Canada's 18th Cabinet and was Minister for Northern Affairs and National Resources until October 10, 1960. As part of a government reshuffle, he took over the post of Minister of Agriculture on October 11, 1960 and held this until the end of Diefenbaker's tenure in 1962, the then student and later Prime Minister Brian Mulroney worked as his assistant in the Ministry of Agriculture and also as manager of the election campaign for the following Lower house election.
After the defeat of his party in the general election of April 8, 1963 , Hamilton acted between 1963 and 1966 as the agricultural policy spokesman for the opposition PC faction .
After the resignation of John Diefenbaker as party chairman, Hamilton applied at the party congress on September 9, 1967 for his successor, but was ultimately defeated by Robert Stanfield , the Prime Minister of Nova Scotia . In the first ballot he took sixth place among eleven candidates with 136 votes (6.1 percent) and in the fourth ballot with 167 delegate votes (7.7 percent) fourth place among the remaining four candidates, so that he was able to run for the fifth and passed the decisive ballot, which Stanfield won with 1,150 votes (54.3 percent) against Dufferin Roblin , who got 969 delegate votes (45.7 percent). Previously, the third-place winner in the fourth ballot, Davie Fulton , had spoken out in favor of Stanfield.
After his previous constituency Qu'Appelle for the general election was dissolved on June 25, 1968 , he ran for re-election in the Regina East constituency , but suffered a defeat of only 192 votes to John Burton of the New Democratic Party . While Burton received 13,641 votes, Hamilton had 13,449 votes.
In the subsequent election on October 30, 1972 , Hamilton was re-elected as a member of parliament in the Qu'Appelle-Moose Mountain constituency as the successor to his party friend Richard Southam and represented this constituency until its dissolution on November 20, 1988.
During this time he was between December 5, 1972 and December 19, 1974 opposition spokesman for energy, mining and resources and then from December 19, 1974 to 1976 agricultural policy spokesman for the PC group.
Web links and sources
- CV on the home page of the Canadian Parliament
Individual evidence
- ^ Canadian Ministries at rulers.org
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hamilton, Alvin |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Hamilton, Francis Alvin George (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Canadian politician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 30, 1912 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Kenora , Ontario |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 29, 2004 |