THE POLITICAL POWER

• 7 August 1930 - 23 October 1935

BORN

• 3 July 1870, Hopewell Hill, New Brunswick

EDUCATION

• Dalhousie University (Law), Halifax

PERSONAL STATUS

• Bachelor

OCCUPATION

• Lawyer
• 1896 Elected to Town Council of Chatham, New Brunswick
• 1897 Practised law in Calgary, Alberta
• 1910 - 1920 President, Calgary Power Ltd.

PARTY

• Conservative
• 1927 - 1938 Party Leader

CONSTITUENCIES

• 1911 - 1917 Calgary, Alberta
• 1925 - 1939 Calgary West, Alberta

OTHER MINISTRIES

• 1921 Justice
• 1926, 1930 - 1932 Finance
• 1926 Acting Minister of the Interior, Superintendent General of Indian Affairs, Minister of Mines
• 1930 - 1935 External Affairs, President of the Privy Council

POLITICAL RECORD

• Creation of the Bank of Canada 1935
• Creation of the Canadian Wheat Board 1935
• Member of the British House of Lords as Viscount Bennett 1941 - 1947

DIED

• 26 June 1947, Mickleham, Surrey, England

BURIED

• Village churchyard, Mickleham, Surrey, England
• The only Prime Minister not buried in Canada