biography
pronunciation:
[meeuhn]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1874–1960)
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| biography:
| Canadian statesman and prime minister (1920, 1921, 1926), born in Anderson, Ontario, SE Canada. He became a lawyer, and sat in the Canadian House of Commons as a liberal Conservative (1908–26). He was solicitor general (1913), secretary of state (1917), and minister of the interior (1917), and succeeded Robert Borden as leader of the Conservatives in 1920. A brilliant parliamentary debater, his skill helped to carry the controversial Military Service Bill in 1917. He later became a minister without portfolio (1932–5) and a senator (1932–41). |
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