George Halsey Perley
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Sir George Halsey Perley, K.C.M.G., P.C. (September 12, 1857 – January 4, 1938) was a Canadian politician and diplomat.
Born in Lebanon, New Hampshire, the son of William Goodhue Perley and Mabel E. Ticknor Stevens, Perley was educated at the Ottawa Grammar School, at St. Paul's School in Concord, New Hampshire, and at Harvard University where he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1878.
He was first elected to the Canadian House of Commons as a Conservative MP in 1904 and served as High Commissioner to the United Kingdom and Minister of the Overseas Military Forces in the World War I government of Sir Robert Borden. He subsequently served as Secretary of State for Canada in the 1926 government of Arthur Meighen and Minister without Portfolio in the government of R. B. Bennett.
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- Parliament of Canada biography
- A history of Quebec, its resources and people, Volume 2. Internet Archive.
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| Preceded by Thomas Christie, Jr. |
Member of Parliament for Argenteuil 1904–1917 |
Succeeded by Peter Robert McGibbon |
| Preceded by Charles Stewart |
Member of Parliament for Argenteuil 1925–1938 |
Succeeded by Georges-Henri Héon |
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| Preceded by Ernest Lapointe |
Secretary of State of Canada 1926 |
Succeeded by Fernand Rinfret |
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| Preceded by Donald Alexander Smith |
Canadian High Commissioner to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 1914-1922 |
Succeeded by Peter Charles Larkin |
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