Malcolm Wallace McCutcheon

Malcolm Wallace McCutcheon PC CBE QC (born May 18, 1906 in London , Ontario - † January 23, 1969 ) was a Canadian politician of the Progressive Conservative Party (PC), who was a member of the Senate for almost six years and a minister between 1962 and 1963 without portfolio and then for a short time in 1963 Minister for Trade and Industry in the 18th Canadian cabinet of Prime Minister John Diefenbaker .

Life

McCutcheon graduated from school with a degree in law with a doctorate in law (LL.D.) and then took up a position as a lawyer . For his legal services he was appointed Crown Counsel (Queen's Counsel) . During the Second World War , he worked for the Wartime Prices and Trade Board, which was founded in 1939. In 1945, he was co-founder and managing director of the Argus Corporation investment company .

On August 9, 1962, McCutcheon was appointed Senator for Ontario on the proposal of Prime Minister John Diefenbaker and represented the Gormley Senate District until his resignation on May 13, 1968 .

At the same time he was appointed on August 9, 1962 by Prime Minister John Diefenbaker in the 18th Canadian Cabinet and was initially Minister without portfolio. As part of a government reshuffle, he took over the office of Minister for Trade and Industry on February 12, 1963 and held this office until the end of Diefenbaker's term on April 21, 1963.

After the resignation of John Diefenbaker as party chairman, McCutcheon applied at the party congress on September 9, 1967 for his successor, but was ultimately defeated by Robert Stanfield , the Prime Minister of Nova Scotia . In the first ballot he took fifth place among eleven candidates with 137 votes (6.1 percent) and in the second ballot with 76 delegate votes (3.4 percent) he was eighth among the remaining nine candidates, so he decided not to run again . He then spoke out in favor of Stanfield, who won in the fifth ballot with 1150 votes (54.3 percent) against Dufferin Roblin , who got 969 delegate votes (45.7 percent). Other applicants had previously spoken out in favor of Stanfield, while Roblin only received an official letter of support from Diefenbaker. Despite his resignation, Diefenbaker ran again at short notice, but received only 271 votes (12.2 percent), 172 delegate votes (7.8 percent) and 114 votes (5.2 percent) in the first three ballots and withdrew his candidacy for the fourth ballot back.

In the election of June 25, 1968 McCutcheon, who had also been appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE), ran for the Progressive Conservative Party in the constituency of York-Simcoe for a member of the House of Commons , but was defeated by John Roberts from the Liberal Party . While Roberts received 15,906 votes (45.3 percent), he received only 13,100 votes (37.3 percent).

Web links and sources

• CV on the home page of the Canadian Parliament

Individual evidence

1. ^ Canadian Ministries at rulers.org