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About Charles Mickle
- Charles Julius Mickle (July 22, 1849 in Stratford, Canada West, now Ontario – November 10, 1919 in Minnedosa, Manitoba) was a politician in Manitoba, Canada.
- He was a provincial cabinet minister for three years and on two occasions served as the leader of the Liberal Party in the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba. Mickle trained as a lawyer and was admitted to the Ontario bar in 1872.
- He practiced law in Ontario for ten years before moving to Manitoba.
- He was first elected to the Manitoba legislature for the constituency of Birtle in the 1888 provincial election, as a supporter of Liberal Premier Thomas Greenway.
- He was re-elected in the 1892 campaign and won by acclamation in 1896.In 1889, he married Mary A.
- Ross.In November 1896, Mickle entered Greenway's cabinet as Provincial Secretary.
- He held this position until the resignation of the Greenway ministry in January 1900.
- The Liberals had narrowly lost the election of 1899, although Mickle was re-elected in Birtle.Mickle was also one of only nine Liberals to be re-elected in the party's electoral debacle of 1903.
- The party won only nine seats, but Mickle scored a surprisingly easy victory (584 votes to 293) over Conservative John Leich.
- When Greenway re-entered federal politics in 1904, Mickle was chosen to replace him as parliamentary leader.Mickle served as the de facto party leader until March 28, 1906, when a provincial Liberal convention acclaimed Edward Brown for the position.
- Brown was unable to win a seat in the election which followed, and Mickle was again chosen as parliamentary leader in January 1908. He left politics in 1909, having been appointed a County Court Judge.
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