Term of Office: 15 January 1960 – 1 September 1965
Born: Boissevain, Manitoba, 21 March 1896
Died: Winnipeg, Manitoba,  9 January 1967

• Manitoba’s first native-born Lieutenant Governor.
• Educated at Universities of Toronto, Alberta, Manitoba.
• Practiced law in Winnipeg 1926-29 and in Boissevain 1929-33.
• Unsuccessfully stood for Parliament as a Conservative in Souris Constituency in 1926, but was elected and served as a member of the Bennett government of 1930.
• Ceased law practice in 1933 to take up farming.
• Defeated in the 1935 federal election by three votes.
• Member of Legislative Assembly 1936-60.
• Leader of Manitoba Conservative Party 1936-54.
• Provincial Minister of Public Works 1940-50.
• Minister of Agriculture 1958-60 and Deputy Premier 1958-59.
• An enthusiastic curler, he was a member of the Olympic Champion Canadian Curling Team at the 1932 Lake Placid Olympics.