George Nowlan
George Clyde Nowlan PC QC (born August 14, 1898 in Havelock , Nova Scotia , † May 31, 1965 ) was a Canadian lawyer and politician of the Progressive Conservative Party (PC) who was a member of the House of Commons for 15 years . Between 1957 and 1962 he was first Minister for National Income and then from 1962 to 1963 Treasurer and Treasurer in the 18th Canadian Cabinet of Prime Minister John Diefenbaker .
Life
Nowlan joined the Canadian Army as a rifleman during World War I and took part in combat missions abroad. He then completed an undergraduate degree at Acadia University , which he completed in 1920 with a Bachelor of Arts (BA). A postgraduate studies of law at Dalhousie University , he finished with a Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.) and then took a job as a barrister on. For his legal services he was appointed Crown Counsel (Queen's Counsel) .
In the mid-1920s he began his political career in the province of Nova Scotia when he was elected to the House of Representatives of Nova Scotia on June 25, 1925 as a candidate of the Progressive Conservative Association of Nova Scotia and represented the constituency of Kings there until August 21, 1933 .
In a by-election in the constituency of Digby-Annapolis-Kings on December 23, 1948, Nowlan was elected for the first time as a member of the lower house, but lost this mandate in the following lower house election on June 27, 1949 . In another by-election in the newly created constituency of Annapolis-Kings, he was re-elected as a member of the House of Commons on June 19, 1950, to which he belonged until his death on May 31, 1965, where he had been since the August 10 election 1953 again represented the constituency of Digby-Annapolis-Kings.
During this time he served between April 17, 1950 and March 14, 1954 as President of the Progressive Conservative Party and as such was responsible for the management and internal organization of the party.
On June 21, 1957, Nowlan was appointed by Prime Minister John Diefenbaker to the 18th Canadian Cabinet, where he was first Minister for National Income and then from August 9, 1962 to the end of Diefenbaker's term on April 21, 1963 Treasury Secretary and Treasurer.
After his party's defeat in the general election of April 8, 1963 , he served as the financial policy spokesman for the opposition PC faction until his death .
His son is the politician John Patrick "Pat" Nowlan , who won his father's constituency in a by-election on November 8, 1965 and was a member of the House of Commons for almost 28 years until his defeat in the October 25, 1993 election and during that time Among other things, from November 5, 1984 to October 1, 1988 was chairman of the Standing Committee on Transport.
Web links and sources
- CV on the home page of the Canadian Parliament
Individual evidence
- ^ Canadian Ministries at rulers.org
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Nowlan, George |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Nowlan, George Clyde (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Canadian politician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 14, 1898 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Havelock , Nova Scotia |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 31, 1965 |