William Joseph Browne, PC

Queen's Privy Council for Canada

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 (May 3, 1897 – January 10, 1989) was a Canadian

Canada

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 politician.

Born in St. John's, Newfoundland, he was a Member of the last Newfoundland House of Assembly in 1933 and a cabinet minister in the government of Frederick C. Alderdice

Frederick C. Alderdice

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 when the Commission of Government

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 took over governing Newfoundland.

In 1949

Canadian federal election, 1949

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, he was elected to the Canadian House of Commons

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 in the riding of St. John's West

St. John's West

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. A Progressive Conservative, he was defeated in the 1953 federal election

Canadian federal election, 1953

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. He was elected again to the House of Assembly in 1954. He was re-elected to the House of Commons in the 1957

Canadian federal election, 1957

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 and 1958

Canadian federal election, 1958

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 elections. He was defeated in the 1962 election

Canadian federal election, 1962

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 and again in the 1965 election

Canadian federal election, 1965

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. From 1957 to 1960, he was a Minister without Portfolio

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 in the cabinet of John Diefenbaker

John Diefenbaker

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. From 1960 to 1962, he was the Solicitor General of Canada

Solicitor General of Canada

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.

In 1981, he published his biography, Eighty-four years a Newfoundlander: Memoirs of William J. Browne (ISBN 0-9690979-0-5).

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