Arthur Meighen (pronounced /ˈmiː.ən/), PC, QC (June 16, 1874 – August 5, 1960) was the ninth Prime Minister of Canada from July 10, 1920 to December 29, 1921 and June 29 to September 25, 1926. He was the first Prime Minister born after Confederation, and the only one to represent a riding in Manitoba. Both of his terms of office were brief, the second unprecedentedly so, partially due to the King-Byng Affair.
Meighen was born in Anderson, Ontario...
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Arthur Meighen (pronounced /ˈmiː.ən/), PC, QC (June 16, 1874 – August 5, 1960) was the ninth Prime Minister of Canada from July 10, 1920 to December 29, 1921 and June 29 to September 25, 1926. He was the first Prime Minister born after Confederation, and the only one to represent a riding in Manitoba. Both of his terms of office were brief, the second unprecedentedly so, partially due to the King-Byng Affair.
Meighen was born in Anderson, Ontario, Canada to Joseph Meighen and Mary Jane Bell. Meighen attended high school in St. Marys, Ontario at North Ward Public School, now known as Arthur Meighen Public School. The grandson of the schoolmaster of the first school in St. Marys, Meighen was an exemplary student. In 1892 in his final year at St. Marys Collegiate Institute, Meighen was elected secretary of the Literary Society and was a member of the school Debating Society. He received first class honours in Mathematics, English, and Latin and went on to tertiary education at the...
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