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About John Lawrie
- John Polworth Lawrie (August 25, 1875 in Edinburgh, Scotland – October 17, 1952) was a politician in Manitoba, Canada.
- He served in the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba from 1936 to 1949.
- Originally elected as a Conservative, he sat as a Progressive Conservative after the party changed its name.Lawrie was educated in Edinburgh, and came to Canada in 1893.
- He worked as an implement dealer and insurance broker, also served as a police magistrate and commissioner.
- In 1907, he married May Clegg.He was first elected to the Manitoba legislature in the 1936 provincial election, defeating incumbent Liberal-Progressive candidate John Muirhead by 82 votes in the constituency of Norfolk.
- The Conservatives were the primary opposition party in Manitoba during this period, and Lawrie sat with his party on the opposition benches. In 1940, the Liberal-Progressives and Conservatives joined together in a wartime coalition government.
- This arrangement did not prevent the parties from fielding candidates against one another in the 1941 election, however; Lawrie again faced John Muirhead, and won by only 44 votes.
- He served as a government backbencher for the remainder of his tenure in the legislature. In the 1945 election, he defeated a candidate of the Cooperative Commonwealth Federation. Lawrie did not run for re-election in 1949, and died in Carberry three years later.
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