Harry Nixon
Harry Corwin Nixon (born April 1, 1891 in St. George , Ontario ; † October 22, 1961 ibid) a Canadian politician of the United Farmers of Ontario and most recently the Ontario Liberal Party , who was a member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario for 42 years and between the May 18 and August 17, 1943 briefly served as Prime Minister of Ontario .
Life
Member of the Legislative Assembly and Provincial Government of Ontario
Nixon, who graduated from the Ontario Agricultural College of the University of Toronto , was elected on October 20, 1919 as a candidate of the United Farmers of Ontario for the first time to the legislative assembly of Ontario and represented the constituency of Brant North until December 1, 1926 .
On November 14, 1919, he took over his first government office in the provincial government formed by Prime Minister Ernest Charles Drury and served as provincial secretary and registrar until July 16, 1923.
In the elections of December 1, 1926, he was re-elected for the Progressive Party and later for the Liberal-Progressives as a member of the Legislative Assembly and represented the constituency of Brant County until June 19, 1934 and until his death on May 22nd October 1961 then the constituency of Brant .
Prime Minister Mitchell Hepburn called him on July 10, 1934 back to the provincial government of Ontario, where he resumed the offices of provincial secretary and registrar until October 22, 1942.
Prime Minister of Ontario and defeated in 1943
After the resignation of Prime Minister Gordon Daniel Conant , Nixon became his successor on May 18, 1943 and thus the 13th Prime Minister of Ontario. At the same time he took over the functions of provincial secretary and registrar again. He also succeeded Conant as chairman of the Ontario Liberal Party.
In these functions he was the top candidate of the LP in the elections to the legislative assembly on August 4, 1943. His party suffered a serious defeat and lost 50 of its 66 seats and only had 16 of the 90 seats, making it only the third strongest force was. The election winner was the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario (PCP), which gained 15 seats and now had 38 seats in parliament. The second strongest force was the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (CCF), which won 34 mandates from scratch.
On August 17, 1943, Nixon was replaced by the chairman of the PCP, George A. Drew , who then formed a minority government.
Subsequently, Nixon remained a member of the Legislative Assembly as a backbencher until his death and was a member of numerous standing committees and special committees.
His son Robert Fletcher Nixon was elected to his successor as a member of the legislative assembly after his death on January 18, 1962 in the by-election in the constituency of Brant and was a member of this until July 31, 1991. He was between 1967 and 1976 and again from 1990 to 1991 chairman of the Ontario Liberal Party and minister several times. His granddaughter, Robert Nixon's daughter Jane Stewart , was a member of the Canada's House of Commons for nearly eleven years for the Liberal Party of Canada and held several ministerial offices in the 26th Canadian cabinet of Prime Minister Jean Chrétien between 1996 and 2003 .
Web links
- Entry on the Ontario Legislative Assembly homepage
Individual evidence
- ↑ Canadian Provinces (rulers.org)
- ^ Entry on the homepage of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario
- ^ Entry on the homepage of the Parliament of Canada
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| SURNAME | Nixon, Harry |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Nixon, Harry Corwin (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Canadian politician and 13th Prime Minister of Ontario |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 1, 1891 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | St. George , Ontario |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 22, 1961 |
| Place of death | St. George , Ontario |