THE POLITICAL POWER

• 10 July 1920 - 29 December 1921
• 29 June 1926 - 25 September 1926

BORN

• 16 June 1874, Anderson, Ontario

EDUCATION

• University of Toronto (Mathematics)

PERSONAL STATUS

• Married 1904, Isabel J. Cox (1882 - 1985)
• Two suns, one daughter

OCCUPATION

• Lawyer (called to the Manitoba Bar in 1903)
• Businessman
• Author

PARTY

• Conservative
• 1920 - 1926, 1941 - 1942 Party Leader

CONSTITUENCIES

• 1908 - 1921, 1925 - 1926 Portage la Prairie, Manitoba
• 1922 - 1925 Grenville, Ontario

OTHER MINISTRIES

• 1913 - 1917 Solicitor General
• 1917 Secretary of State
• 1917 - 1920 Minister of the Interior and Superintendent General of Indian Affairs
• 1919 -1920 Mines
• 1920 - 1921, 1926 (while Prime Minister) External Affairs
• 1926 President of the Privy Council

POLITICAL RECORD

• While Minister of the Interior, Meighen introduced legislation that would create the Canadian National Railways 1919
• Prominent in ending the Winnipeg General Strike 1919
• Argued successfully against the renewal of the Anglo-Japanese Alliance 1921
• Senator 1932 - 1942

DIED

• 5 August 1960, Toronto, Ontario

BURIED

• St. Mary's Cemetery, St. Mary's, Ontario