Paul Joseph James Martin

Paul Joseph James Martin PC CC QC ( born June 23, 1903 in Ottawa, Ontario, † 14 September 1992 ) was a Canadian lawyer and politician of the Liberal Party, which then represented the province of Ontario for almost forty years until the House and Senate had, and also long-time Federal Minister in various ministries.

Life

MP and Minister

After schooling Martin graduated and graduated with a Master of Arts. Another post-graduate studies in law, he finished with a Master of Laws ( LL.M.) and then worked as a lawyer and barrister.

His political career began when Martin elections of 14 October 1935 as he was first elected as a candidate of the Liberal Party as a member of the House and, in this April 20, 1968 Essex East constituency represented until his mandate waiver.

During his long parliamentary membership, he was first, between May 1943 and April 1945 Parliamentary Assistant to the Minister of Labour and then from April 1946 to December 1946 Secretary of State for Canada, headed by Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King 16 federal government. After a cabinet reshuffle King appointed him in December 1946 to Minister of National Health and Welfare. At the same time he was between December 1947 and June 1948, Chairman of the House of Commons Special Committee on Prices.

The Office of the Minister of National Health and Welfare, he held also in the subsequent and headed by Prime Minister Louis Saint -Laurent Cabinet 17 November 1948 to June 1957. During this time he was in August 1950 for a few days also Acting Minister of Labour.

Unsuccessful candidates for the presidency of the Liberal

In January 1958 he applied for the successor of Saint -Laurent as party leader of the Liberal Party, but lost it Lester Pearson, the longtime foreign minister and current leader of the opposition in the House.

In April 1963, Martin was appointed by Prime Minister Lester Pearson as foreign minister in the of this guided 19 Federal Government and held the ministerial office until the end of Pearson's term of office in April 1968. Following the resignation Pearsons as party leader, he ran in early April 1968, though again for the post the Chairman of the Liberal Party. This time, however, he was beaten Pierre Trudeau, the former justice minister in the Cabinet of Pearson.

Senator and High Commissioner

On April 20, 1968, he was appointed on the recommendation of Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau senator for Ontario and represented by 30 October 1974 Senate District Windsor - Walkerville. In addition, he was educated by Trudeau 20 federal government from April 1968 to March 1969, first minister without portfolio and then from April 1969 to August 1974 leader of the Liberal government majority party in the Senate.

In addition, Martin was 1972-1977 Chancellor of Wilfrid Laurier University ( WLU ) in Waterloo (Ontario).

On August 8, 1975, he resigned as majority leader after he was appointed in the United Kingdom High Commissioner. After he had on 30 October in 1974 resigned his Senate seat, he joined the Office of the High Commissioner in London officially on 1 January 1975 and practiced from this until 1979.

In 1976 he was appointed Companion of the Order of Canada. In addition to his appointment as High Commissioner therefore its merits for decades Canada has been recognized at home and abroad. In addition, he also received honorary doctorates in law ( Hon. LL.D. ), Civil Law ( Hon DCL) and the humanities ( Hon. D.Humanities ).

Paul Joseph James Martin was the father of Paul Martin, who had several years of Finance and from 2003 to 2006, Prime Minister of Canada.

Publications

  • A lifetime of public service: a brief biographical sketch of Mackenzie King, 1945
  • Labour 's post -war world, 1945
  • Canada reviews old age security, 1950
  • Canada and the quest for peace, 1967
  • Paul Martin speaks for Canada: a selection of speeches on foreign policy, 1964-67, 1967
  • Federalism and international relations, 1968
  • Fédéralisme et relationsé international, 1968
  • The Senate of Canada: its record and future challenge: speeches, co-author Earl A. Hastings, 1969
  • Comments on the role of the Senate in the load session, 1969
  • A very public life, 2 volumes, 1983
  • Paul Martin: the London diaries, 1975-1979, published by William R. Young, 1988
  • Citizenship and the people 's world: the Canadian Citizenship Act of 1946, 1992
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