Frank Campbell Biggs

Frank Campbell Biggs

Frank Campbell Biggs (September 13, 1872, Brantford, Ontario – March 27, 1942, Redlands, California) was a United Farmers member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario who represented Wentworth North from 1919 to 1926. He served in the cabinet for the Ernest Charles Drury Coalition government from 1919 to 1923 as Minister of Public Works and Minister of Public Highways.

Biggs was a farmer, the son of Richard L. Biggs, and was educated in Dundas, Guelph and Hamilton. Biggs served as warden for Wentworth County and reeve for Beverly Township. He raised cattle and was a director of the Wentworth Agricultural Society. Biggs was said to be the first the county in to use electric milking and cooling machines. As Minister of Highways, he initiated the development of the province's system of paved highways.

His uncle Samuel Clarke Biggs was a member in the Manitoba legislature.

References

* "Canadian Parliamentary Guide, 1922", EJ Chambers

External links

* [http://www.ontla.on.ca/web/members/members_all_detail.do?locale=en&ID=898 Member's parliamentary history for the Legislative Assembly of Ontario]
* [http://www.ourroots.ca/e/toc.aspx?id=4280 "Ancaster's Heritage" (1973)]


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