Hugh Guthrie

Hugh Guthrie (July 1927)

Hugh Guthrie PC KC (born August 13, 1866 in Guelph , Ontario , Canada , † November 3, 1939 in Ottawa ) was a Canadian lawyer and politician of the Conservative Party of Canada and from October 11, 1926 to October 12, 1927 its acting chairman .

Life

After attending school, Guthrie, whose father Donald Guthrie was also a lawyer and member of the House of Commons , studied law at Osgoode Hall Law School and worked as a lawyer after completing his studies and being admitted to the bar. In 1902 he was appointed crown attorney .

He began his political career in the Liberal Party and was elected for the first time as a member of the House of Commons in the general election of November 7, 1900 , where he represented the constituency of Ontario-Wellington South until August 7, 1930 , from 1917 onwards Unionist Party and after 1921 the Conservative Party.

On October 4, 1917, he became Solicitor General , but was not a member of Canada's 9th Cabinet , which was headed by Prime Minister Robert Borden . He held the office of Solicitor General until September 30, 1921. At the same time, he was Minister of Militia and Defense between January 24, 1920 and December 28, 1921 in the tenth and eleventh cabinets of Canada of Prime Ministers Borden and Arthur Meighen .

Prime Minister Meighen appointed him to the 13th Canadian Cabinet on June 29, 1926 , in which he was Minister of National Defense until September 24, 1926 and also acting Minister of Justice and Attorney General until July 12, 1926.

After the Conservative Party's defeat in the general election on September 24, 1926 and Arthur Meighen's resignation as party chairman in the wake of the King Byng affair , he took over the post of provisional for a year from October 11, 1926 to October 12, 1927 Chairman of the Conservative Party and was also the leader of the opposition . In October 1927 he ran for the position of party chairman, but was defeated by Richard Bedford Bennett .

On August 7, 1930, he first resigned his parliamentary mandate after he was appointed Attorney General and Attorney General in the 15th Cabinet of Canada , led by Prime Minister Richard Bedford Bennett . Shortly thereafter, he was on 25 August 1930 during an election ( by-election again) as a representative of the constituency Ontario Wellington South elected member of the House and this belonged to 12 August 1935th He held the office of Attorney General and Attorney General of Canada until his resignation on August 12, 1935.

He was then appointed Chairman of the Railway Commission ( Chief Commissioner of the Board of Railway Commissioners ) and held this post until his death.

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