Jack Davis (politician, 1916)

John "Jack" Davis PC (born July 31, 1916 in Kamloops , British Columbia , † March 27, 1991 ) was a Canadian economist , engineer and politician of the Liberal Party of Canada and the British Columbia Social Credit Party , who was a member of the House of Commons for twelve years and was a minister several times. He later served on the British Columbia Legislative Assembly and served as Minister in the British Columbia Provincial Government for several years.

Life

After attending school, Davis completed a course of study, which he completed with a Bachelor of Arts (BA) and a Master of Arts (MA). He also graduated from the University of British Columbia with a Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) and postgraduate studies in landscape architecture with a Master of Landscape Architecture (MLA). Because of its student services he received in 1939 a Rhodes scholarship to study at St John's College of the University of Oxford . In the meantime, Davis took part in the Second World War as a member of the Royal Canadian Air Force . In addition, he earned a Doctor of Philosophy ( Ph.D. ) with a thesis on Hexogen and a Doctor of Science (D.Sc.) at McGill University in 1942 and worked as an economist and engineer.

In the general election of June 18, 1962 , Davis was elected as a candidate of the Liberal Party for the first time as a member of the lower house and initially represented the constituency of Coast-Capilano and most recently since the election of June 25, 1968 the constituency of Capilano until his defeat in the general election on July 8, 1974 .

Less than a year after his first election, he took over his first government office in May 1963 and was Parliamentary Secretary to the Prime Minister until September 1965 and then Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Mines and Technical Assessment from January to September 1966, before he was from October 1966 to April 1968 Was Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Energy, Mines and Resources.

On April 26, 1968, Davis was appointed Minister without Portfolio by Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau to the 20th Canadian Cabinet and, after a cabinet reshuffle, was Minister for Fisheries from July 6, 1968 to March 31, 1969 and then Minister for Fisheries and Forestry, before he last held the office of Environment Minister between June 11, 1971 and August 7, 1974.

After leaving the government and the House of Commons, he left the Liberal Party some time later and instead became a member of the British Columbia Social Credit Party, the provincial association of the Social Credit Party of Canada . For this he was elected to the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia for the first time on December 11, 1975 and represented there until September 15, 1978 and then again between May 10, 1979 and March 27, 1991 the constituency of Vancouver-Seymour .

On December 22, 1975 Davis was appointed by the Prime Minister of British Columbia , Bill Bennett , as Minister of Transport and Communications for the first time in the provincial government of British Columbia, where he was Minister for after a government reshuffle from October 29, 1976 to April 3, 1978 Energy, transport and communication was. In the provincial government formed by Bennett's successor Bill Vander Zalm , Davis was Minister for Energy, Mining and Petroleum Resources from November 1986 to March 27, 1991.

Publications

• Popular politics: how to make democracy work , Vancouver 1984

Web links

• Entry on Parliament's homepage