- George Grierson
George Allison Grierson (
April 11 ,1867 –October 18 ,1931 ) was a politician inManitoba ,Canada . He served in theLegislative Assembly of Manitoba from 1914 to 1922, and was acabinet minister in the government ofTobias C. Norris . Grierson was a member of the Liberal Party.Grierson was moved in Brantford,
Canada West (nowOntario ), and was educated in that city andWinnipeg . He worked as a financial agent and public school teacher. He also served as a town councillor in Minnedosa, and wasmayor of the city from 1914 to 1915.He ran for the
Canadian House of Commons in the 1911 federal election as a candidate of theLiberal Party of Canada in Marquette, but lost to ConservativeWilliam James Roche , 3,409 votes to 3,283.Grierson was first elected to the Manitoba legislature in the 1914 provincial election, defeating Conservative candidate William B. Waddell by 209 votes. This election saw Premier
Rodmond P. Roblin 's Conservatives elected to a fifth term in office, and Grierson sat with his party on the opposition benches.Early in 1915, the Conservatives were forced to resign from office in the wake of a serious corruption scandal. The Liberals won a landslide majority government in the election which followed, with Grierson defeating Conservative candidate
James Muir by 219 votes. OnNovember 10 ,1917 , Grierson was appointed to cabinet as Minister of Public Works.The Liberals were reduced to a
minority government in the 1920 provincial election, amid the rise of organized Farmer and Labour groups. Grierson was personally re-elected, defeating Farmer candidateW.T. Bielby by 267 votes. He withdrew from cabinet onJanuary 10 ,1921 , and did not seek re-election in 1922.Grierson died in
Minnedosa, Manitoba in 1931.
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