Hugh Guthrie

Hugh Guthrie KC PC ( 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 of 11 October 1926 to the October 12, 1927 the Acting Chairman.

Life

After schooling studied Guthrie, whose father Donald Guthrie was also a lawyer and member of the House of Law at Osgoode Hall Law School and was employed after graduation and completion of an attorney admitted to the bar. In 1902 he was appointed Attorney-General.

His political career began first in the Liberal Party and was first elected for them by the general election on 7 November 1900 as a Member of Parliament in the House of Commons and represented there until August 7, 1930 the constituency Ontario Wellington South, where he from 1917 unionist Party and belonged to the Conservative Party after 1921.

On 4 October 1917 he was Solicitor General, but was not the 9th Canadian Cabinet on, which was led by Prime Minister Robert Borden. The Office of the Solicitor General, he held until September 30, 1921. At the same time he was between 24 January 1920 and the December 28, 1921 Minister of Militia and Defence in the tenth and eleventh Cabinet of Canada, the Prime Minister Borden and Arthur Meighen.

Prime Minister Meighen appointed him on 29 June 1926, the 13th Canadian Cabinet, in which he was the provisional until September 24, 1926 Minister of National Defence and at the same time until the July 12, 1926 Minister of Justice and Attorney General.

After the electoral defeat of the Conservative Party in the general election of 24 September 1926, the resignation of Arthur Meighens as party chairman in the wake of the King - Byng affair, he took over a year of 11 October 1926 to the October 12, 1927 provisionally the Office of the Chairman of the Conservative Party and was also the leader of the opposition. In October 1927 he was a candidate for the function of the party chairman, but was defeated Richard Bedford Bennett.

On August 7, 1930, he first put down his seat after he was appointed Minister of Justice and Attorney General in the Prime Minister Richard Bedford Bennett led by 15 Cabinet of Canada. Shortly afterwards, he was again elected to represent the constituency Ontario Wellington South as a Member of the House of Commons on 25 August 1930 during an election (By election ) and this belonged to 12 August 1935. The Office of the Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada he held until his resignation on 12 August 1935.

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