Richard Squires
Sir Richard Anderson Squires KCMG ( born January 18, 1880 in Harbour Grace, Newfoundland; † March 26, 1940 in St. John's, Newfoundland) was a Canadian politician of the Liberal Reform Party and twice Prime Minister of the Dominion Newfoundland.
Biography
Squires founded in 1907 the People's Party, the largest opposition party in Parliament was already in elections to the House of Representatives in 1908. He himself missed in these elections an electoral mandate by only five votes. Since the elections but with a stalemate and with 18 seats for his People's Party and the Liberal Party of outgoing Prime Minister Sir Robert Bond ended, resigned this, so that was Edward Morris of the People's Party 's new prime minister.
The proclaimed by this early elections, the People's Party won a large majority of 26 of the 36 seats in the House of Representatives and also Squires received a seat in Parliament, but he lost again in the general election in 1913.
Nevertheless, Prime Minister Morris appointed him in 1914 to the Minister of Justice ( Attorney General ) and a member of the Legislative Council. The need for more volunteers to encourage a war effort in World War I, led to a united Legislativfront and ultimately in 1917 to form an all-party government, the so-called National Government, remained in the Morris prime minister. As part of the reshuffle Squires handed the office of Attorney General William Frederick Lloyd of the Liberal Party, while he himself was Colonial Secretary.
Following the resignation of Morris on December 31, 1917 a new National government was formed in 1918, Prime Minister Lloyd was born on 5 January. However, Squires refused the proffered adoption of a ministerial office in 1919 and Chairman of the Liberal Reform Party.
On November 17, 1919, he made as Prime Minister of a coalition government of Liberals and Fishermen's Protective Union. In 1921, he was raised as a Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George in the personal nobility and led since then the predicate sir. When it came within the government to the resignation of four ministers due to discrepancies, Squires finally resigned on July 24, 1923 back by the Office of the Prime Minister.
In the elections for the House of Representatives in 1928 led by him Liberal Party achieved electoral victory, so that he for the second time Prime Minister of the Dominion Newfoundland was on 17 November 1928. In the wake of the Great Depression after the global economic crisis gathered on April 5, 1932, more than 10,000 protesters outside the House of Representatives. After a delegation of the protesters access to the Parliament building was denied, the amount procured by force access to the Parliament building. Squires, who could only barely escaped the applied mass of people, then dissolved parliament and established new elections for 11 June 1932.
With this not only the Liberal Party suffered a defeat, but he also lost his seat on the House of Representatives and then retired from politics.