George Allison Grierson (April 11, 1867–October 18, 1931) was a politician in Manitoba

Manitoba

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, Canada

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. He served in the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba

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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...

 from 1914 to 1922, and was a cabinet minister in the government of Tobias C. Norris. Grierson was a member of the Liberal Party

Manitoba Liberal Party

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.

Grierson was moved in Brantford

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, Canada West (now Ontario

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), and was educated in that city and Winnipeg

Winnipeg

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. He worked as a financial agent and public school teacher. He also served as a town councillor in Minnedosa

Minnedosa, Manitoba

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, and was mayor

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 of the city from 1914 to 1915.

He ran for the Canadian House of Commons

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 in the 1911 federal election

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 as a candidate of the Liberal Party of Canada

Liberal Party of Canada

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 in Marquette

Marquette (electoral district)

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, but lost to Conservative

Conservative Party of Canada (historical)

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 William James Roche

William James Roche

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, 3,409 votes to 3,283.

Grierson was first elected to the Manitoba legislature in the 1914 provincial election

Manitoba general election, 1914

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, defeating Conservative

Progressive Conservative Party of Manitoba

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 candidate William B. Waddell

William B. Waddell (Manitoba politician)

William B. Waddell was a politician in Manitoba, Canada. He served in the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba from 1903 to 1910, as a member of the Conservative Party....

 by 209 votes. This election saw Premier

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 Rodmond P. Roblin's Conservatives elected to a fifth term in office, and Grierson sat with his party on the opposition benches.

Early in 1915, the Conservatives were forced to resign from office in the wake of a serious corruption scandal. The Liberals won a landslide majority government in the election which followed

Manitoba general election, 1915

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, with Grierson defeating Conservative candidate James Muir by 219 votes. On November 10, 1917, Grierson was appointed to cabinet as Minister of Public Works.

The Liberals were reduced to a minority government

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 in the 1920 provincial election

Manitoba general election, 1920

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, amid the rise of organized Farmer and Labour

Dominion Labour Party (in Manitoba)

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 groups. Grierson was personally re-elected, defeating Farmer candidate W.T. Bielby by 267 votes. He withdrew from cabinet on January 10, 1921, and did not seek re-election in 1922.

Grierson died in Minnedosa, Manitoba

Minnedosa, Manitoba

Minnedosa is a town in the southwestern part of the Canadian province of Manitoba. Situated 50 kilometres north of Brandon, Manitoba on the Little Saskatchewan River, the name means "flowing water" in Sioux. The population of Minnedosa reported in the 2006 Statistics Canada Census was 2,474...

in 1931.