Herbert Macdonald Mowat (April 11, 1863 - April 24, 1928) was a lawyer, jurist, and Canadian parliamentarian.

A nephew of longtime Ontario premier

Premier of Ontario

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 Mowat

Oliver Mowat

Sir Oliver Mowat, was a Canadian politician, and the third Premier of Ontario from 1872 to 1896, making him the longest serving premier of that province and the 3rd longest in all of Canadian history...

, Herbert Mowat was elected president of the Toronto Reform Association (the Toronto wing of the Liberal Party) in 1901 and then became president of the General Reform Association of Ontario

Ontario Liberal Party

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 (i.e. the Ontario Liberal Party) in 1905 and served in that position until 1911. He ran unsuccessfully for the Liberals in the 1911 federal election

Canadian federal election, 1911

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 in the riding of Ontario North

Ontario North

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 but was elected to the Canadian House of Commons

Canadian House of Commons

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 in the 1917 federal election

Canadian federal election, 1917

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 as a Liberal-Unionist

Liberal-Unionist

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 from Parkdale

Parkdale (electoral district)

Parkdale was a Canadian federal electoral district represented in the Canadian House of Commons from 1917 to 1979. It included the community of Parkdale in the western part of Toronto...

. He was appointed to the Supreme Court of Ontario

Supreme Court of Ontario

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 in 1921 and served on the bench until his death.

A longtime member of the Canadian Militia

Canadian Militia

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, he was not accepted for overseas service during World War I

World War I

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. Instead, he acted a military recruiter serving as Brigade Major of the 3rd and 8th Infantry Brigade at Camp Borden. He was also an active executive member of the British Empire League

British Empire League

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 of Canada.

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