Robert Mayhew

Robert Wellington Mayhew PC (* 13. October 1880 in Cobden , Ontario ; † 28. July 1971 ) was a Canadian politician of the Liberal Party , the Minister in the 16th Canadian Cabinet of Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King and the 17th Cabinet of Prime Minister Louis Saint-Laurent and was ambassador to Japan between 1952 and 1954 .

Life

Mayhew, who worked as an entrepreneur, began his political career in local politics and was between 1933 and 1935 Reeve of the small town of Oak Bay in British Columbia .

In a by-election in the Victoria constituency in British Columbia, he was elected as a candidate for the Liberal Party on November 29, 1937 for the first time as a member of the House of Commons and was a member of this until his voluntary resignation on October 15, 1952.

He took over his first government office on September 25, 1945 as Parliamentary Assistant to James Lorimer Ilsley and then from Douglas Abbott , Treasury Secretary in the 16th Canadian Cabinet. Three years later he was appointed Minister for Fisheries by Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King on June 11, 1948, and held this post after Prime Minister Louis Saint-Laurent had formed the 17th Canadian Cabinet on November 15, 1948. On October 14, 1952, he resigned from his ministerial office.

After leaving government and parliament, he became Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Japan on October 15, 1952, and represented the interests of Canada until he was replaced by Thomas Clayton Davis on November 23, 1954.

Web links and sources

• Robert Mayhew - biographical information on the website of the Canadian Parliament (English)
• Canadian Ministries at rulers.org