David Howard Harrison

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David Howard Harrison

David Howard Harrison (born June 1, 1843 in London , Upper Canada , † September 8, 1905 in Vancouver ) was a Canadian politician . He was Prime Minister of the Province of Manitoba and ruled from December 26, 1887 to January 19, 1888. His reign of 24 days is by far the shortest in this province.

biography

Harrison studied medicine at the University of Toronto and McGill University . In 1864 he opened a practice in St. Mary's , where he had grown up, later he became coroner of Perth County . In 1882 he decided to move to Manitoba and start a ranch . The following year he ran for a seat in the Manitoba Legislative Assembly and was elected in the Minnedosa constituency. He soon became friends with Prime Minister John Norquay . Harrison was appointed Minister of Agriculture, Statistics and Health in August 1886. Three months later he was re-elected in the new constituency of Minnedosa West.

When Norquay lost the support of Canadian Prime Minister John Macdonald because he no longer wanted to support the monopoly of the Canadian Pacific Railway , the provincial government fell apart. Harrison was named Manitoba's new Prime Minister on December 26, 1887. But a few days later the ruling conservatives lost two by-elections, whereupon he resigned after only 24 days in office and Thomas Greenway , the leader of the Liberals, was commissioned to form a government.

After that defeat, Harrison no longer ran in the 1888 elections. He successfully ran a bank in Neepawa and settled in the province of British Columbia in 1900 .

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SURNAME Harrison, David Howard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian politician
DATE OF BIRTH June 1, 1843
PLACE OF BIRTH London , Upper Canada
DATE OF DEATH September 8, 1905
Place of death Vancouver