Norman McLeod Rogers
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Norman McLeod Rogers, MA, B.Litt., BCL, (July 25, 1894 – June 10, 1940) was a member of parliament for Kingston, Ontario, Canada and a cabinet minister in the government of Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King. He was also an early biographer of King.
Rogers was born in Amherst, Nova Scotia and served in the military during World War I. He was educated at Acadia University and in 1919 he was elected a Rhodes Scholar. He went to University College, Oxford (University of Oxford, where he was awarded a BA Honours (MA) degree in Modern History, the B.Litt., and the BCL.
Rogers was private secretary to King from 1927 to 1929, then worked as a professor at Queen's University in Kingston. He was elected to Parliament in 1935, and served under King as Minister of Labour until 1939, and then Minister of National Defence from 1939 to 1940.
Rogers died in a plane crash on June 10, 1940 near Newtonville, Ontario, while enroute from Ottawa to Toronto for a speaking engagement. Kingston/Norman Rogers Airport is named in his honour.
[edit] External links
- Biography at Collections Canada
- Synopsis of federal political experience from the Library of Parliament
[edit] Bibliography
- W. A. M., 'Obituary: Norman McLeod Rogers, 1894-1940', Canadian Journal of Economics and Political Science/Revue canadienne d'Economique et de Science politique, vol. 6, no. 3 (August, 1940), pp. 476-478
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