Born

• 3 July 1870, Hopewell Hill, New Brunswick

Education

• New Brunswick Provincial Normal School, Fredericton 1886
• Dalhousie University, LL.B. 1893

Personal Status

• Bachelor

Professional Life

• 1886-1888 Teacher, Irishtown, New Brunswick
• 1888-1890 School principal, Douglastown, New Brunswick
• Lawyer(called to the New Brunswick bar in 1893)
• Businessman
• 1896 Town Councillor of Chatham, New Brunswick
• 1898-1905 Member of the Assembly of the North West Territories
• 1909-1911 MLA Alberta
• 1910-1920 President, Calgary Power Company

Died

• 26 June 1947, Mickleham, Surrey, England

Buried

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

Party

• Conservative
• 1927-1938 Party Leader

Constituencies

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

Other Ministries

• 1921 Justice and Attorney General
• 1926 Minister Without Portfolio
• 1926, 1930-1932 Finance and Receiver General
• 1926(Acting) Mines, Interior and Superintendent General of Indian Affairs
• 1930-1935 Secretary of State for External Affairs and President of the Privy Council

Political Record

• Director-General of National Service 1914-1917
• The Relief Act 1932
• Creation of the Canadian Radio Broadcasting Commission (forerunner of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation) 1932
• Creation of the Bank of Canada 1935
• Creation of the Canadian Wheat Board 1935
• Leader of the Opposition 1935-1938
• Member of the House of Lords (United Kingdom) as Viscount Bennett 1941-1947