James Oswald Argue was a politician in the Canadian province of Manitoba

Manitoba

Manitoba is a Canadian prairie province with an area of . The province has over 110,000 lakes and has a largely continental climate because of its flat topography. Agriculture, mostly concentrated in the fertile southern and western parts of the province, is vital to the province's economy; other...

. He served in the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba

Legislative Assembly of Manitoba

The Legislative Assembly of Manitoba and the lieutenant governor form the Legislature of Manitoba, the legislature of the Canadian province of Manitoba. Fifty-seven members are elected to this assembly in provincial general elections, all in single-member constituencies with first-past-the-post...

 as a Progressive Conservative

Progressive Conservative Party of Manitoba

The Progressive Conservative Party of Manitoba is the only right wing political party in Manitoba, Canada. It is also the official opposition party in the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba.-Origins and early years:...

 from 1945 until his death ten years later. Argue's father, James H. Argue, was also a Member of the Legislative Assembly

Member of the Legislative Assembly

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 from 1898 to 1914.

Argue was educated at Wesley College, Winnipeg

Wesley College, Winnipeg

Wesley College was a college that existed in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada from 1888 to 1967. It was one of the University of Winnipeg's founding colleges.-History:...

. He worked as a farmer at Elgin, Manitoba and was active in freemasonry

Freemasonry

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.

He was first elected to the Manitoba legislature in the 1945 provincial election

Manitoba general election, 1945

Manitoba's general election of October 15, 1945 was held to elect Members of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Manitoba, Canada.The 1945 provincial election was extremely different from the previous election, which was held in 1941...

, winning by acclamation in the Deloraine constituency after his only opponent withdrew from the race. He was again returned by acclamation in the 1949 election

Manitoba general election, 1949

Manitoba's general election of November 10, 1949 was held to elect Members of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Manitoba, Canada.This election pitted the province's coalition government, made up of the Liberal-Progressive Party and the Progressive Conservative Party, against a variety of...

, for the redistributed riding of Deloraine-Glenwood.

From 1940 to 1950, Manitoba was governed by an alliance of Liberal-Progressives

Manitoba Liberal Party

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 and Progressive Conservatives. When the Progressive Conservatives left the coalition in 1950, Argue chose to sit as an independent Progressive Conservative.

He later rejoined the Progressive Conservative Party, and defeated Liberal-Progressive R.E. Moffat by 268 votes in the 1953 provincial election

Manitoba general election, 1953

Manitoba's general election of June 8, 1953 was held to elect Members of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Manitoba, Canada. This was the first election held in Manitoba after the breakup of a ten-year coalition government led by the Liberal-Progressives and Progressive Conservatives...

. He was still a member of the legislature when he died two years later.