Edward Brown (Manitoba politician), Date of Birth, Date of Death
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About Edward Brown (Manitoba politician)
- Edward Brown (May 23, 1865 – February 8, 1947) was a Manitoba politician.
- He served briefly as leader of the Manitoba Liberal Party (1906–07), and was later a cabinet minister in Tobias Norris's government (1915–1922). Born in Gresham, Bruce County, Ontario, the son of Edward J.
- Brown, was educated in St.
- Catharines.
- In 1882, he began business as a merchant in Paisley.
- In 1888, Brown came to Portage la Prairie; he served as mayor there for six years.
- He married Esther Huston in 1893.
- In 1909, Brown moved to Winnipeg where he established a financial brokerage firm that he operated until 1942.
- He was also president of the Canada West Securities Corporation and of the British Northwestern Fire Insurance Company.
- In 1910, he was listed as one of Winnipeg's 19 millionaires.Brown made his electoral debut in the provincial campaign of 1903, narrowly losing to Conservative Hugh Armstrong in Portage la Prairie.
- He subsequently became a leading organizer for the Liberals, and was acclaimed as party leader on March 28, 1906 (replacing Charles Mickle).
- He was again defeated by Armstrong in the election of 1907, however, and resigned as party leader shortly thereafter.
- Brown lost a third electoral contest in 1910, falling to Lendrum McMeans in Winnipeg South, 2545 votes to 2496. Brown finally entered parliament in 1915, running in a deferred election in the northern riding of The Pas.
- The Liberal party led by Premier Tobias Norris had already won a landslide victory in the rest of the province, and Brown had joined the cabinet as Provincial Treasurer; perhaps not surprisingly, he was unopposed for his riding.
- Brown held his cabinet position until the Norris government was defeated in 1922.
- In the election of 1920, he fended off a weak challenge from Labour candidate A.
- Norgrove. In 1922, Brown supported efforts to reunite the "Unionist" and "Laurier Liberal" factions of the Liberal Party in Canada and Manitoba (see Wilfrid Laurier).
- While these efforts were successful, they led to a popular perception that the previously-independent Norris government would henceforth be subservient to the federal Liberals.
- Opposition parties used this to their advantage in the election of 1922, which the United Farmers of Manitoba won in a landslide. Brown was not a candidate in 1922, and did not return to political life thereafter.He died in Winnipeg at the age of 81.
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