Sidney Earle Smith
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Sidney Earle Smith PC QC (9 March 1897 – 17 March 1959) was an academic and Canada's Secretary of State for External Affairs in the government of Prime Minister John Diefenbaker.
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Sidney Earle Smith | |
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Secretary of State for External Affairs | |
In office 13 September 1957 – 17 March 1959 | |
Prime Minister | John Diefenbaker |
Preceded by | John Diefenbaker |
Succeeded by | John Diefenbaker (Acting) |
Member of Parliament for Hastings—Frontenac | |
In office 4 November 1957 – 17 March 1959 | |
Preceded by | George Stanley White |
Succeeded by | Rod Webb |
7th President of the University of Toronto | |
In office 1945–1957 | |
Preceded by | Henry John Cody |
Succeeded by | Claude Bissell |
2nd President of the University of Manitoba | |
In office 1934–1944 | |
Preceded by | James Alexander MacLean |
Succeeded by | Henry Percy Armes (Acting) |
4th Dean of Dalhousie Law School | |
In office 1929–1934 | |
Preceded by | John Erskine Read |
Succeeded by | Vincent C. MacDonald |
Personal details | |
Born | Sidney Earle Smith (1897-03-09)9 March 1897 Port Hood Island, Nova Scotia, Canada |
Died | 17 March 1959(1959-03-17) (aged 62) Ottawa, Ontario, Canada |
Political party | Progressive Conservative |
Spouse |
Harriet Amelia Rand (m. 1926) |
Children | 3 |
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