- Jean-Pierre Blackburn
Jean-Pierre Blackburn PC, MP (born July 6, 1948 in Jonquière, Quebec) is a Canadian politician. Blackburn is the current Conservative Party of Canada member of the Canadian House of Commons from the riding of Jonquière—Alma. He was elected in the 2006 federal election. On February 6, 2006, Blackburn was appointed Minister of Labour and Housing in Prime Minister Stephen Harper's Cabinet. - Claudette Bradshaw
Claudette Bradshaw, PC, (born April 8, 1949) is a former Canadian politician who served as Member of Parliament (MP) for the riding of Moncton—Riverview—Dieppe, New Brunswick. She was first elected on June 2, 1997 and served until 2005. She is a member of the Liberal Party of Canada. Claudette Bradshaw was appointed Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of International Cooperation and Minister Responsible for the Francophonie on June 10, 1997.On November 23, 1998, … - Ernest Bevin
Ernest Bevin (9 March 1881 - 14 April 1951) was a British labour leader, politician, and statesman best known for his time as Minister of Labour in the war-time coalition government, and as Foreign Secretary in the post-war Labour government. - Tarja Filatov
Tarja Filatov is a Finnish politician and Minister of Labour in Matti Vanhanen's first cabinet. - Pierre Laporte
Pierre Laporte, was a Canadian politician who was the Vice-Premier and Minister of Labour of the province of Quebec at the time he was kidnapped and murdered by members of the terrorist group, the Front de Libération du Québec (Quebec Liberation Front). Pierre Laporte was born in Montreal, Quebec. He was a journalist with "Le Devoir" newspaper from 1945 to 1961, and was known for his crusading work against the government of Quebec's then-Premier Maurice Duplessis. - Lucienne Robillard
Lucienne Robillard, PC, MP (born June 16, 1945 in Montreal, Quebec) is a Canadian politician and a member of the Liberal Party of Canada. She sits in the Canadian House of Commons as Member of Parliament for the riding of Westmount—Ville-Marie in Montreal. Robillard had a career as a social worker before entering politics. In the Quebec election of 1989, she was elected to the Quebec National Assembly in the riding of Chambly as a member of the Liberal Party of Quebec. - Charles Caccia
Charles L. Caccia, PC (born April 28, 1930 in Milan, Italy) is a Canadian politician. Caccia is a former Liberal member of the Canadian House of Commons. He represented the Toronto riding of Davenport between 1968 and 2004. A professor of forestry at the University of Toronto, Caccia is best known for his strong pro-environment views on the left of the Liberal party. He served at various times as Minister of Labour, Minister of the Environment, … - Margaret Bondfield
Rt. Hon. Margaret Grace Bondfield (17 March 1873 - 16 June 1953) was an English Labour politician and feminist, the first woman Cabinet minister in the United Kingdom and one of the first three female Labour MPs. Like many figures of the Labour movement, Bondfield was a non-conformist - particularly, a member of the Congregational church. Bondfield was born in Chard, Somerset, the eleventh child of Anne Taylor and William Bondfield, a textiles worker with left-wing views. - François Fillon
François Fillon is the current Prime Minister of France, having been appointed to that office by President Nicolas Sarkozy on 17 May 2007. As a member of the UMP party, Fillon became Jean-Pierre Raffarin's Minister of Labour in 2002 and undertook controversial reforms of the 35-hour working week law and of the French retirement system ("Loi Fillon"). He became Minister of Education and Research in 2004 and proposed the much debated Fillon law on Education. - Réal Ménard
Réal Ménard is a Canadian politician, and is member of the Canadian House of Commons for the Quebec riding of Hochelaga. He is a member of the Bloc Québécois and is the second Canadian Member of Parliament to come out as gay. Ménard is a political scientist with B.A. and M.A. degrees. He first stood for federal office in the 1984 federal election as candidate for the small Parti nationaliste du Québec in Hochelaga–Maisonneuve. - Lincoln Alexander
Lincoln MacCauley Alexander, PC, CC, K.St.J., O.Ont, CD, QC, BA, LL.B (born January 21, 1922, in Toronto, Ontario), served as the 24th Lieutenant-Governor of Ontario from 1985 to 1991. Alexander was a Governor of the Canadian Unity Council Born to West Indian immigrants to Canada, Lincoln Alexander first distinguished himself by serving in the Royal Canadian Air Force during the second World War. - Brad Clark
Brad Clark (born 1960 in Hamilton, Ontario) is a Canadian politician in Ontario, Canada. He is currently the councillor in Ward nine in Hamilton, Ontario. He was a Progressive Conservative member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1999 to 2003, and was a cabinet minister in the governments of Mike Harris and Ernie Eves. - Darren Praznik
Darren Thomas Praznik (born May 9, 1961) is a politician in Manitoba, Canada. He was a prominent cabinet minister in the Progressive Conservative government of Gary Filmon, and considered running for the party's leadership in 2000. Praznik was born in Selkirk, Manitoba, and attended the University of Winnipeg and the University of Manitoba. He was called to the Manitoba bar in 1986, and worked as a barrister and solicitor. - Arthur Steel-Maitland
Sir Arthur Herbert Drummond Ramsay Steel-Maitland, 1st Baronet, PC (5 July 1876-30 March 1935) was a British Conservative politician. The second son of Colonel E. H. Steel and Emmeline, daughter of General Henry Drummond, he was educated at Rugby and at Balliol College, Oxford, where he was a classical Scholar and Eldon Scholar in 1899. He gained first class honours in classics and law, and became a Fellow of All Souls College in 1900. - Allan MacEachen
Allan Joseph MacEachen, PC (born July 6, 1921) is one of Canada's elder statesmen and was the first Deputy Prime Minister of Canada. Born in Inverness on Nova Scotia's Cape Breton Island, MacEachen, after a stint teaching at his alma mater, St. Francis Xavier University, was elected to the Canadian House of Commons on August 8, 1953, as a Liberal under the leadership of Prime Minister Louis St-Laurent. - Joseph Godber
Joseph Bradshaw Godber, Baron Godber of Willington PC (17 March 1914-25 August 1980) was a British Conservative politician and cabinet minister. Godber was educated at Bedford School and became a nurseryman. He became chairman of the county glasshouse section of the National Farmers Union and of the publicity and parliamentary committee. He was a member of the Tomato and Cucumber Marketing Board. Godber served as a Bedfordshire County Councillor. - Yigal Allon
Yigal Allon (born October 10, 1918, died February 29, 1980), commander of the Palmach, was an Israeli politician, serving as one of the leaders of Mapai and the Alignment, acting Prime Minister of Israel, member of Knesset and government minister from the tenth through the seventeenth Knessets. Alon was born in Kfar Tavor and studied at the Kadoori Agricultural High School. As a young man he joined the Jewish Settlement Police as a police officer. - Laila Dåvøy
Laila Dåvøy is a Norwegian politician (Christian Democrats). She was Minister of Children and Family Affairs (2001-2005) and Minister of Labour and Administration (1999-2000). A nurse by education, she has been leader of the Norwegian Nurses' Union (1992-1998). She was also personal secretary to the Minister of Culture and Church Affairs (1989-1990). Dåvøy lives in Askøy in Hordaland. She is married and has three children. - Thomas Shaw
Tom Shaw PC CBE (9 April 1872 - 26 September 1938) was a British trade unionist and Labour Party politician. Born in Colne, Lancashire, he received elementary school education. He was Secretary of the International Federation of Textile Workers from 1911-1929, and again from 1931. He was Joint Secretary of Labour and Socialist International from 1923-1925. He sat as Member of Parliament (MP) for Preston from December 1918 until he was unseated at the 1931 general election. - James Murdock
James Murdock (August 15 1871 - May 15 1949) was a Canadian politician. Born in Brighton, England, he first ran for the Canadian House of Commons as the Liberal candidate in the 1921 federal election in the Ontario riding of Toronto South. Although defeated, he was appointed Minister of Labour in the cabinet of Mackenzie King shortly after the election. The current MP in the riding of Kent, Archibald McCoig, gave up his seat and was appointed to the Canadian Senate in 1922. - John Hodge
John Hodge (29 October 1855 - 10 August 1937) was a Coalition Labour party politician in the United Kingdom, and was the first Minister of Labour and the second Minister of Pensions. Hodge was born in Linkeyburn, Ayrshire and attended Ironworks School and Hutcheonstown Grammar School. When he was thirteen Hodge left school to become a solicitor's clerk and then in a grocer's shop before becoming joining the local iron works as a puddler, the same job as his father. - Doug Young
Meredith Douglas "Doug" Young, PC (born September 20 1940) is a Canadian politician. He was first elected to the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick in 1978 as a Liberal Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA). He was elected leader of the New Brunswick Liberal Party in 1982, but resigned within a year of his rising to that post due to a poor showing in the 1982 provincial election. When the Liberals formed a government under Frank McKenna in 1987, … - Anderson Montague-Barlow
Sir (Clement) Anderson Montague-Barlow, 1st Baronet KBE, PC (28 February 1868 - 31 May 1951) was an English Barrister and Conservative Party politician. Montague-Barlow was born at St Bartholomew's Vicarage, Clifton, Gloucestershire. He received a Master's degree and an LL.D. from the University of Cambridge and practiced at the bar. Between 1910 and 1923 he represented Salford South in the House of Commons. - Bülent Ecevit
Mustafa Bülent Ecevit was a Turkish politician, poet, writer and journalist. - Bart Maves
Bart Maves (born October 30, 1964 in Niagara Falls, Ontario) is a politician in Ontario, Canada. He was a Progressive Conservative member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1995 to 2003. Before running for office himself, Maves worked as a legislative assistant to federal MP Ken Atkinson, who represented St. Catharines from 1988 to 1993. He also worked as a planning secretariat for Alberta Education. - Bette Stephenson
Dr. Bette M. Stephenson, OC, O.Ont, MD (July 31, 1924—) is a medical doctor and politician in Ontario, Canada. She served in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1975 to 1987, and was a cabinet minister in the Progressive Conservative governments of Bill Davis and Frank Miller. Born in Aurora, Ontario, she attained her medical degree from the University of Toronto in 1946. Dr. Stephenson practised medicine for more than 40 years. - Peter Heenan
Peter Heenan (February 19 1875 - May 12 1948) was a Canadian politician. Born in Tullaree, County Monaghan, Ireland, he was a locomotive engineer before being elected to the Legislative Assembly of Ontario as the Labour candidate for the riding of Kenora in the 1919 election. He was re-elected in 1923. He was elected as the Liberal candidate to the Canadian House of Commons representing the riding of Kenora—Rainy River in the 1925 federal election. - Bill McKnight
William Hunter "Bill" McKnight, PC (born July 12 1940) is a former Canadian politician. Born in Elrose, Saskatchewan, he served as Minister of Agriculture, Minister of Indian Affairs and Northern Development, Minister of National Defence, Minister of Energy, Mines and Resources and Minister of Labour in the Progressive Conservative government of Brian Mulroney. - Gideon Robertson
Gideon Decker Robertson, PC (August 26 1874 - August 5 1933) was a Canadian Senator and Canadian Cabinet minister. Robertson was a telegrapher by profession and had links with conservatives in the labour movement. In January 1917, he was appointed to the Senate as a Conservative as a means of bringing in labour representation during the First World War. - Allen Bristol Aylesworth
Sir Allen Bristol Aylesworth, PC, KCMG (27 November 1854 - 13 February, 1952) was a Canadian lawyer and parliamentarian. Born in Newburgh, Ontario of United Empire Loyalist ancestry, Aylesworth was educated at the University of Toronto, and called to the Ontario Bar in 1878. As the Canadian member of the Alaska Boundary Tribunal in 1903, he presented his country’s views in a minority report. - Michael Starr
Michael Starr, CStJ, PC (born Michael Starchewsky) (November 14 1910 - March 16 2000) was a Canadian politician and the first Canadian cabinet minister of Ukrainian descent, his parents having immigrated from Ukraine, then a part of the Russian Empire. Born in Copper Cliff, Ontario, he was an Alderman for the City of Oshawa from 1944 to 1949. From 1949 to 1952, he was the mayor of Oshawa. - Yves Séguin
Yves Séguin is a former Canadian politician in Quebec. He was first elected as the Quebec Liberal Party (QLP) member for Montmorency in 1985. He was the parliamentary assistant to the Minister of Revenue from 1985 to 1987. He was then made the Minister of Revenue himself in 1987. He was also made the Minister of Labour in 1988. He resigned from both positions in 1990. After serving in various private capacities, he re-entered public life, … - Rodolphe Lemieux
Rodolphe Lemieux, PC, FRSC (November 1 1866 - September 28 1937) was a Canadian parliamentarian and long time Speaker of the Canadian House of Commons (1922-1930). He was born in Montreal as the son of a Customs officer. After a career as a journalist, lawyer and law professor he was elected to the Canadian House of Commons in the 1896 election as a Liberal. He was a loyal follower of Sir Wilfrid Laurier and, in 1904 became Solicitor General of Canada in Laurier's Cabinet. - Percy Downe
Percy Downe, BA (born July 8 1954) is a Canadian Senator and former political aide. From 1986 to 1993, Downe was executive assistant to the Premier of Prince Edward Island, Joe Ghiz. Downe moved to Ottawa following the Liberal victory in the 1993 federal election, and served as exectuive assistant to the Secretary of State for Veterans Affairs. He subsequently served as executive assistant to the Minister of Fisheries and Oceans, and then the Minister of Labour. - Thomas Wilson Crothers
Thomas Wilson Crothers (January 1 1850 - December 10 1921) was a Canadian politician. Born in Northport, Canada West, he was a lawyer and teacher before being elected to the Canadian House of Commons for the Ontario riding of Elgin West in the 1908 federal election. A Conservative, he was re-elected in 1911 and as a Unionist in 1917. From 1911 to 1918, he was the Minister of Labour. - Jean Corbeil
Jean Corbeil, PC (January 7, 1934 - June 25, 2002) was a Canadian politician. Born in Montreal, Quebec, he was mayor of the city of Anjou from 1973 to 1988. In 1987-1988 he served a term as chairman of the Canadian Federation of Municipalities. In the 1988 ferderal election, he was elected to the Canadian House of Commons as a Progressive Conservative in the riding of Anjou--Rivière-des-Prairies. - Dennis Dawson
Dennis Dawson, BA, MBA (born September 28, 1949) is a Canadian Senator. Born in Quebec City, Quebec, Dawson is a former Liberal Member of Parliament in the Canadian House of Commons, representing the riding of Louis-Hébert, Quebec from 1977 to 1984. Dawson is listed as an administrator. He is a former Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Labour and former Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Employment and Immigration. - Bill Wrye
William Munro Wrye (born December 25, 1944 in Regina, Saskatchewan) is a former politician in Ontario, Canada. He served in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario as a Liberal from 1981 to 1990, and was a cabinet minister in the government of David Peterson. Wrye was educated at the Ryerson Polytechnical Institute in Toronto, and worked as a television producer before entering political life. He was first elected to the Ontario legislature in the 1981 provincial election, … - Alan Green
Alan Green (29 September 1911 - 2 February 1991) was a British Conservative Party politician. Green was educated at Brighton College and London University. In 1935 he joined a Blackburn manufacturers s a manager, and became a company director and a member of a firm of textile engineers. He volunteered for the British Army at the outbreak of World War II and was commissioned in 1942, serving in the Middle East and attaining the rank of Major. - Norman McLeod Rogers
Norman McLeod Rogers, MA, B.Litt., BCL, (July 25 1894 - June 10 1940) was a member of parliament for Kingston, Ontario, Canada and a cabinet minister in the government of Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King. He was also an early biographer of King. Rogers was born in Amherst, Nova Scotia and served in the military during World War I. He was educated at Acadia University and in 1919 he was elected a Rhodes Scholar.
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