James Allison Glen, PC

Queen's Privy Council for Canada

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 (December 18, 1877 – June 28, 1950) was a Canadian

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 parliamentarian and Speaker of the Canadian House of Commons

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 from 1940 to 1945.

Born in Renton

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, Scotland

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, Glen graduated in law from the University of Glasgow

University of Glasgow

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 before immigrating to Canada in 1911 where he settled in Winnipeg. He later moved to Russell, Manitoba

Russell, Manitoba

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, where he practised law and was elected to the school board.

A supporter of the Progressive Party

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 in Manitoba

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, Glen had been the chief organizer for party leader Thomas Crerar

Thomas Crerar

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 in the 1917 federal election

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 when Crerar was a Liberal-Unionist

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 candidate, and the 1921 election

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 in which the Progressives

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 made their debut.

Glen was first elected to the Canadian House of Commons

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 in the 1926 election

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 as a Liberal-Progressive

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 at a time when Manitoba Progressives, including the Manitoba Progressive Party

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 provincial government, had decided to align with the Liberal

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s in order to increase their influence.

After losing his seat in the 1930 election

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, Glen returned to Parliament in 1935

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.

Glen was chosen as Speaker of the House following the 1940 election

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, and had to deal with issues of wartime

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 security such as censoring Hansard

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 in order to remove sensitive military information. Due to the international situation and wartime moblization, there was a greater degree of interparty cooperation during the war which assisted Glen in his job.

Glen remained a Liberal-Progressive in name until the 1945 election

Canadian federal election, 1945

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 when he ran as a Liberal—immediately prior to the 1945 election, Mackenzie King appointed Glen to the Canadian Cabinet as Minister of Mines and Resources. In practice, however, he and his fellow Liberal-Progressives were Liberals in every respect.

Glen remained Minister of Mines and Resources until he retired from Cabinet following a heart attack

Myocardial infarction

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 in 1948. A few months later Glen resigned from the House of Commons in order to provide a seat for Stuart Garson

Stuart Garson

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, the Premier of Manitoba

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 who had been enticed to join the federal Cabinet as Minister of Justice. Glen was appointed Canadian Co-Chairman of the International Joint Commission

International Joint Commission

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. He died two years later.