Ralph Campney

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Ralph Osborne Campney PC KC (* 6. June 1894 in Picton , Ontario , † 6. October 1967 ) was a politician of the Liberal Party of Canada , the Solicitor General and Minister of Defense in the 17th Cabinet of Prime Minister Louis St. Laurent was.

Life

Campney completed an undergraduate degree after attending school , which he completed with a Bachelor of Arts (BA). During the First World War he did his military service between 1915 and 1919 and was used by the 19th Infantry Battalion, the Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps and the Royal Flying Corps . After studying law and being admitted as a lawyer, he started working as a barrister . For his lawyer's merits, he later became Attorney-General (King's Counsel) appointed.

In a by-election on June 8, 1948 Campney ran in the Vancouver Center constituency without success for a seat in the House of Commons . In the subsequent general election on June 27, 1949 , however, he was elected a member of the lower house for the Liberal Party in this constituency and belonged to it until his defeat in the general election on June 10, 1957 . During his parliamentary membership, he chaired a special committee from February 16 to June 30, 1950, which dealt with national defense laws, pensions for members of the militia, and the payment and distribution of prize money.

He took over his first government office on January 24, 1951 as Parliamentary Assistant to Brooke Claxton , Minister of National Defense in the 17th cabinet of Prime Minister Louis Saint-Laurent.

After a government reshuffle, he became Solicitor General on October 15, 1952, and as such was one of the government's chief advisers on legal matters until January 11, 1954. At the same time he acted between February 12, 1953 and June 30, 1954 as Assistant Minister for National Defense.

In the course of another government reshuffle, Prime Minister Saint-Laurent appointed him on July 1, 1954, to succeed Brooke Claxton as Minister of National Defense. He held this ministerial office until the end of Saint-Laurent's term on June 20, 1957.

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SURNAME Campney, Ralph
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Campney, Ralph Osborne (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian Liberal Party politician
DATE OF BIRTH June 6, 1894
PLACE OF BIRTH Picton , Ontario
DATE OF DEATH October 6, 1967