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About Henry Laird
- Henry Willoughby Laird (January 4, 1868 – September 30, 1940) was a journalist, wholesale merchant and political figure in Saskatchewan, Canada.
- He sat for Regina division in the Senate of Canada from 1917 to 1940.He was born in Port Dover, Ontario, the son of the Reverend William H.
- Laird and Elizabeth C.
- Burke, and was educated at the Jarvis Street Collegiate Institute and the University of Toronto.
- Laird worked as a journalist for ten years, spending three years as a press correspondent in the Ontario legislature and Canadian House of Commons.
- He married Lillian Blanche Defoe in 1888. In 1901, he came west to serve as private secretary to Frederick W.
- A.
- G.
- Haultain.
- After leaving that position, he then established a wholesale and distribution business in Regina, the first wholesale business established there.
- He was Mayor of Regina in 1904 and 1905.
- Laird ran unsuccessfully for a seat in the provincial assembly in 1905 and 1908.
- He served overseas as a lieutenant-colonel in the Canadian Expeditionary Force during World War I.
- In 1920, he helped found the Equitable Life & Accident Insurance Company and served as its vice-president.
- He was also a director for the Northern Life Assurance Company of London and the Merchants Casualty of Waterloo Laird died in office at the age of 72.
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