Russell Honey, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Russell Honey

Canadian politician

Date of Birth: 28-Aug-1921

Place of Birth: Riverhurst, Saskatchewan, Canada

Date of Death: 07-Jan-2007

Profession: judge, lawyer, politician

Nationality: Canada

Zodiac Sign: Virgo


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About Russell Honey

  • Russell Clayton Honey (28 August 1921 – 7 January 2007) was a Liberal party member of the House of Commons of Canada.
  • He was born in Riverhurst, Saskatchewan and became a lawyer by career after studies at Osgoode Hall Law School.Russell served in the Royal Canadian Air Force from 1940 to 1944 and was released at the request of Trans-Canada Airlines to assist establishing the first trans-Atlantic passenger service. In 1946 he entered Osgoode Hall Law School, graduating in 1949.
  • He was the senior partner in the firm Honey, Brooks, Harrison in Port Hope, Ontario and was appointed a Queen's Counsel in 1965. After an initial unsuccessful attempt to win the Durham riding in the 1958 federal election, he won that seat in the 1962 election.
  • Honey was re-elected there in 1963 and 1965 and he served as Chairman of the Commons Standing Committee on Agriculture in those years.
  • In 1965 Prime Minister Lester Peasrson appointed him Chairman of the National Liberal Caucus. The Durham riding changed in the late 1960s to Northumberland—Durham where Honey won re-election in the 1968 election.
  • In 1968 he was Chairman of the Ontario-Trudeau Committee, a group that played a role in the election of Pierre Elliot Trudeau as leader of the Liberal Party and Prime Minister of Canada.
  • In the early years of Trudeau's administration he was Parliamentary Secretary to the Right Honourable Jean ChrĂ©tien (1969-1970).
  • In 1970 Honey was elected Deputy Speaker of the House of Commons, a position he held until 1972.
  • Following his defeat in the 1972 election, he was appointed a judge in Belleville, Ontario, where he served as a judge of the county court from 1973 to 1989 and a judge of the Ontario Superior Court from 1990 to 1991 when he retired. In his retirement, Russell Honey researched and wrote and published a history of the Johnston family entitled, The Gentle Johnstons.
  • He died in 2007.

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