George Nowlan
Canadian politician
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| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| honorific-prefix | The Honourable |
| name | George Nowlan |
| honorific-suffix | |
| image | George Clyde Nowlan.jpg |
| imagesize | 200px |
| office | Minister of Finance |
| primeminister | John Diefenbaker |
| term_start | 9 August 1962 |
| term_end | 21 April 1963 |
| predecessor | Donald Fleming |
| successor | Walter L. Gordon |
| office1 | Minister of National Revenue |
| primeminister1 | John Diefenbaker |
| term_start1 | 21 June 1957 |
| term_end1 | 8 August 1962 |
| predecessor1 | James Joseph McCann |
| successor1 | Hugh John Flemming |
| riding2 | Digby—Annapolis—Kings |
| Annapolis—Kings (1950-1953) | |
| parliament2 | Canadian |
| term_start2 | 19 June 1950 |
| term_end2 | 8 November 1965 |
| successor2 | Pat Nowlan |
| predecessor2 | Angus Elderkin |
| term_start3 | 13 December 1948 |
| term_end3 | 27 June 1949 |
| predecessor3 | James Lorimer Ilsley |
| successor3 | Riding dissolved |
| assembly4 | Nova Scotia House of |
| constituency_AM4 | Kings |
| term_start4 | 25 June 1925 |
| term_end4 | 22 August 1933 |
| predecessor4 | James Sealy, John Alexander McDonald |
| successor4 | John Alexander McDonald |
| birth_date | |
| birth_place | Havelock, Nova Scotia, Canada |
| death_date | |
| death_place | Ottawa, Ontario, Canada |
| party | Progressive Conservative |
| spouse | |
| children | 4, including Pat |
| occupation | |
| :: |
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George Clyde Nowlan (14 August 1898 – 31 May 1965) was a Canadian Member of Parliament and Cabinet Minister. A member of the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada, he served as Minister of Finance in the government of John Diefenbaker, and was also responsible for the CBC.
Early life and education
Nowlan was born on 14 August 1898 in Havelock, Nova Scotia to the irish-Canadian Charles Randall Nowlan and his wife Hattie Euphemia DeLong. Nowlan was a soldier in the Canadian Expeditionary Force during the First World War. After the war ended, he returned to the Annapolis Valley of Nova Scotia and attended Acadia University to study for a Bachelor of Arts, graduating in 1920. He then studied law at Dalhousie University.
Political career
Nowlan was an MLA in the Nova Scotia Legislature in the 1920s, and was always known for his reputation as a hard worker and a Party Man. He served a term as the Progressive Conservative Party's president. While serving as Minister of National Revenue in 1962, he forbid Customs to censor or ban entrance to any publication unless a Canadian court had already ruled it to be "obscene", rather than using their own discretion. Five years later, this was overturned.
There is a George Clyde Nowlan fonds at Library and Archives Canada.
Personal life
His son Pat Nowlan later became a Progressive Conservative (and later Independent Progressive Conservative) MP in Nowlan's riding of Kings County.
References
- Margaret Conrad, George Nowlan: Maritime Conservative in National Politics. University of Toronto press, 1986.
References
- "George Clyde Nowlan, "Nova Scotia Delayed Births, 1837-1904"".
- Petersen, Klaus & Allan C. Hutchinson. "Interpreting Censorship in Canada", [[University of Toronto Press]], 1999.
- "George Clyde Nowlan fonds, Library and Archives Canada".
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