- Thomas Tweedie
Thomas Mitchell March Tweedie (born:
March 4 ,1871 River John,Nova Scotia died:October 4 ,1944 ) was a politician and lawyer and Chief Justice from,Canada .Early life
Thomas was born in River John,
Nova Scotia in 1871.Thomas attended
Harvard University and graduated with a law degree in 1905. Thomas joined the bar and started practicing law in 1907.Provincial career
Thomas was first elected to the
Legislative Assembly of Alberta in a 1911 by-election and served the Calgary seat that had been previously vacated by Richard Bennett. In this elected he ran under the Conservative banner. Thomas defeated popular municipal alderman Thomas Skinner who ran as a Liberal candidate.Thomas was re-elected to his second term in the 1913 Alberta general election. The Calgary riding was broken up into 3 different ridings under the redistribution bill passed by the Sifton government. Thomas ran in the new riding of Calgary Centre. Thomas won his second term in the legislature with a large margin.
In the 1917 Alberta general election Thomas ran for re-election in Calgary Centre, this time being defeated by Alex Ross who ran as a Labor candidate. Thomas would quickly make the jump to federal politics running in the federal election later that year.
Federal career
After Thomas lost his seat in the 1917 provincial election, he attempted a run at federal politics. Thomas ran as a Unionist member in the new
Calgary West federal riding during the 1917 federal election. He won a comfortable victory and served as the firstMember of Parliament for the riding in the coalition government.Thomas served most of his first in term parliament, until he vacated his seat on
October 14 ,1921 after he was appointed appointed as a Justice to the Bench.Judicial career
Thomas was appointed as a judge in 1921, giving up his seat in the House of Commons. He served as a justice for 23 years before being appointed as a chief justice on
August 16 ,1944 . He would die a short time later onOctober 4 ,1944 at the age of 73.External links
* [http://www.parl.gc.ca/information/about/people/key/bio.asp?Language=E&query=13638&s=M Federal Political Experience, Thomas Tweedie]
* [http://www.archivesalberta.org/walls/legal2.htm Justice Thomas Tweedie: Alberta Archives]
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